The fact that American children watch an average of 21 hours and 42 minutes of television each week is quite shocking because it takes too much valuable time away from children. American parents must limit the time of TV-watching and must choose the programmes to watch for their kids to prevent them from bad influenced of television programmes.
Television watching can be useful sometimes, but usually it is not, because when a kid wastes too much of his time on TV, he will have very less time to do other useful activity such as reading, doing exercise, and interacting with friends and family members. The consequences can be quite severe, the kid could fail subjects in school because of the lacking of studying hour at home, he might also have terrible social life, and he can not be a healthy kid because he has no time to go play outdoor. Most of all, if kids watch everything on TV they will be influenced by violence and inappropriate behaviors such as using drugs and drinking alcohol.
Limiting the time children spend on TV and choosing the programmes they watch considerably are two important solutions parents have to use. Children will spend appropriate time per day watching TV, so they have time to do other stuffs and still can enjoy their favorite shows. They will also watch only programmes that suit their age, selecting by parents, so they will not copy inappropriate behavior from TV.
Monday 30 November 2009
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I think your idea is right that parents should control both of the time and TV program for their children in order to stop their TV addiction behaviors.
ReplyDeleteHowever,I wonder how can the parents limit their children to watch TV? From my experience, my parents work outside. On my summer holiday, I stayed at home alone, so I can watch TV without any comment from my parents. Also, they can't choose the program for me.
I think it is a good idea to find other activities for children to do such as learning music, playing sports, and camping. These activities will steal their attention form TV program. If parents just only limit the time and programs on TV, only few children will follow that rules.
I agree with Ing. Nowadays most parents work outside the whole day so it difficult for them to manage their children. They should take their children to other social activities to balance their time, especially in summer.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you. Television watching can make children addict and may influence them in bad ways. Therefore parent must limit the time children spend on TV everyday to control and manage their time to do other activities that much more useful.
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