Much has changed since the day that the TV was invented. In current times, a TV is a must-have in every single household, at times even more than one set. It has more or less become a part of everyone’s lives as it is viewed throughout most of the day. Even though there are several advantages of watching TV but the disadvantages of watching too much TV on children surpass all of them.
TV’s have come down to being extremely well-liked and widespread. In every single household people have at least one or two TV sets, on which they spend too much time watching programs and shows which do not even bring them any knowledge. Somehow all adults and children become slaves of the television box. One finds it hard to talk to children particularly without anything being mentioned about the television, which proves that much of their lives are dedicated to the television. TV is viewed by families while having their dinner, supper, or even spending their free time, instead of taking up something more creative or something that would have far more advantages. Considering that the television displays a lot of violence in the programs, children are being subject to a lot of brutality and somehow watching TV harms their development.
At the present time, to a greater extent, teenagers expend twice as much time watching the television, while the same time could be used in a better manner by reading books or playing outdoor games. From what is known, there are several opinions about watching television, some saying that it is very constructive, while the others believe that it is harmful. It is definitely detrimental.
TV destroys virtuousness in children. The kids are enforced to get to learn about things that are not indispensable or appropriate for their age. For this reason, they turn out to be more developed earlier than their age. Because of the TV the innocence and babyish behavior related to children is lost, which is a god sent gift to mankind. Innocence brings about cheerfulness to the world, but because of immense television viewing children are not enjoying the contentment in the current world.
It was previously suggested that children should not be watching more than just about two hours of television a day, but recent information presents to us that stricter guidelines should be brought ahead and children who are smaller than two years of age should not be allowed to watch television at all and older children should not be allowed to have their own televisions in their rooms. Since the precedent numerous decades, innumerable researches have proved that there are more than a few ways in which television can be destructive to the psychological and bodily wellbeing of children. No more than a handful of programs are good for the children which teach them skills such as arithmetic, reading, and science or dilemma solutions. More than half of the shows on television, together with cartoons are in no way educational at all. Basically, the more time a child spends watching, the more likely it is that the child would perform poorer at school and get lesser scores on consistent tests. This is true, because when you come down to think on it, the time that the kid is spending on watching television is lesser time depleted on homework or having interesting exchanges with grown ups or other children. What is more is that watching TV late at night makes the children feel tired, which stops them from paying full attention in school during the day.
In a number of occurrences, TV programming endorses off-putting behavior. Violence can be taken as the best example. Even the shows that are dedicated to children at times promote violence. It has been proved that children have a tendency to act rashly and violently depending on the extent of aggression and the overall number of brutal programs that are watched by him. There is also a relationship between viewing TV and being obese. The well-known term "couch-potato" is perhaps a result of this connection between TV viewing and being obese at the same time. Research has shown that this is reversible, as it proved that children who lessened their TV viewing hours at the same time lost weight.
Watching TV, particularly late night shows has been shown to be linked with meager sleep patterns in children. The poignant anxiety founded by the programs might be stopping these children from going to bed or might even be causing nightmares. Consecutively, irregular sleep patterns have the tendency to cause kids to be less observant throughout the day, in addition to making the children perform badly in school
