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Since it’s uprising, television has progressed immensely in various ways. In just a few decades we have improved on its quality, sound, graphics, and even the material that is being televised. While it is more realistic, there are some cons to this entertaining past time. Take, for instance, the sitcom I Love Lucy (a wacky wife and her husband who try to succeed in show business, but the wife usually manages to get in some sort of trouble when she attempts to help which in return, drives her husband crazy) and compare it to that of the gory, cynical plot of The Walking Dead (a post-apocalyptic show involving flesh-eating zombies and the skillful way that a group of strangers work together to survive this catastrophe). These being randomly selected …show more content…

Parents have neglected to use it as a privilege or a reward for doing well, which leads to children having the world at their fingertips at all times; a world that is uncensored, unkind, and impressionable on a young child who has yet to truly experience it. Given the rate at which technology is progressing, and how big of a part it plays in our everyday lives, I can’t help but notice the eye-soaring differences in character between children being born in the generation of technology vs. the older crowd who were raised solely on human contact. Children are most likely to spend the majority of their time watching television or playing video games when they are left un-attended but while the television is providing as a daycare, who is monitoring, and censoring what these perceptive susceptible minds are absorbing? This bad habit of constant television and unsupervised programs has long term negative effects in a child’s reasoning skills, and they’re ability to process and digest information without acting with brute force. The parent should be more aware and introduce these young viewers to something different. Together, the guardian and the child can create a reasonably collective environment of mental capacity just by limiting the amount of hours spent watching television and using fun alternatives besides the …show more content…

The first one is having a child watch violent programs alters their personality and gives them a higher chance of growing up with a violent come up. “Indeed, a negative relationship exists between the amount of time spent watching TV and children and adolescents health status, including overweight, school and verbal performance, perceived cognitive and attention abilities, and violence or bullying” (Patriarca, 2009). A study that was reported by the AAP found that children’s shows had the most violence in television programming. As said in statistics, some cartoons average twenty acts of violence in only one hour and that by the age of 18, children will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence on television. (How Watching Violence on TV Affects Kids; Statistics) Exposure to television violence at an early age increases the likelihood of the child growing up with an aggressive behavior. The parents should watch at least one episode of the programs their children watch. The parent will then know what information is being fed and is being watched by their child and if it is beneficial because they can converse about what is displayed on the

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