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Heavy TV viewing of children: A curse or cure



Heavy TV viewing is becoming a common activity among future stars...As the matter of fact that heavy TV viewing and playing computer or other video games for long times are growing rapidly among our future stars...

Definitely they are not in the age to differentiate between right and wrong..But it is true that these future stars really need the attention of their parents or guardians. It is a big responsibility on the shoulders of their elders to guide them, aware them that heavy TV viewing is not a healthy activity..Tell them about some other creative work. It effects their health as well as their innocent minds..It stops them from creative work...Listening stories from granny or grand papa is also a full of entertainment..There is always a lesson for them..When a child listen or read a story..So here his mind starts imagining things..When he listens about a fairy tale, a monster, an angle or Cinderella...Here his mind starts making a complete picture of it in his imagination...That's a work of healthy mind..Here he uses his most of the senses, while watching TV, his mind enters in the state of rest...complete rest..So it is not a creative way...Social sciences says heavy TV viewing makes a child desensitize. Watching violent acts can make him to behave aggressively with his younger siblings or in some condition with parents. Similarly The child who sees 10 murders daily in different TV programs may commit a murder once in his life....That sound really very horrible..Watching TV, playing violent video or computer games are the reason of aggression in child's behavior..  

 

While most of the studies about the

influence ofMedia on children ends with the

conclusion that fact of matter is parents should

monitor their child...Temporary crankiness a

feeling of emptiness can also be observe in

children behavior after watching TV..Parents

can play a significant role in making their

child future reader..If they tell the story in their

spare time or sitting beside while children are

going to sleep....

Or encourage them to take interest in

books as compare to watching TV or

playing games on computer..That's the

way to make them close with books.

And they can enjoy as well with fun reading

too...



American Academy of Pediatrician made a guide line for the doctors to suggest parents of under 2 years child "Pediatrician should urge parents to avoid television viewing for children under the age of two years" (Media Education, Policy statement Aug 1999) Similarly In 1995 APP found out the reason of over weight children is spending most of the time, sitting in front of TV and Computer screen.. APP gave instruction to Pediatrician to suggest parents" T stop their child watching television more than an hour"......

It is the time to give most of your attention to your child if you are a parent rather than watching TV or spending your time in your another activities..Parents should observe the activities of their child... Never make a communication gap with your child...treat them like a good and sincere friend of them..Your love and attention along your guide lines will definitely can be seen in their personality...And can help them to become a complete and successful man....

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