Television's Impact On Children

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Television’s impact on children

Hundreds of arguments can be made on the topic that television is playing

good or bad role in the society. Surely, television is not a bad thing, but nobody can

deny that it has negative effects too. However, it seems that it is much easier to

understand television’s impact on children than understand it‘s impact on the

society in general. That’s mostly because of the child’s simplicity that allows us to

see almost clearly what impact television makes on every single child. Does the

television have more positive or more negative influence on children is very

questionable and variously considered by different people, but it is for sure that one

of those two impacts is at least slightly stronger and more effective then the other

one. And which one is that, is something I am going to discuss in this essay.

Nowadays television is like a member family in most families. Children

learn from television, they discover new things on it everyday, it answers and explains their

questions, it entertains them, in one word, they find everything they want on TV and it makes

their lives complete because to a child TV sometimes can be a substitute for almost everything. There is no doubt that television can be very useful, educative, entertaining and informative. But

sometimes it can be dangerous. Very often children lose control of their viewing and their

parents have no time to identify whether a particular program makes sense for their son or

daughter or can bring harm.

Television can affect the way a child acts, thinks and feels about different

issues such as violence, education and morality, gender and racial stereotypes. TV

glorifies violence and weapons, and teaches children that the easiest way of

resolving problems is through violence. By every day, television’s programs are

becoming more and more violent a...