how great an influence are television programs to your toddlers

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I have five children, four sons and a daughter. But they are not toddlers anymore. In fact they all have their own children and wives now. When my children were toddlers, they spend most of their hours in front of television. This is to keep them busy, away from being attended to most of the times. I had to leave them to the care of maids, as supervised and guided by my mother, while I go to work. They would watch a lot of cartoons, children's educational programs, especially sesame street and some locally produced programs, too. It was also during their time that "anime" programs were introduced, like voltes five, massinger z, daimos, etc..I noticed that watching these programs have their good and bad bearings on them. They would learn a great deal from sesame street, from the recognition of basics like alphabets, numbers, colors, shapes, etc..which gave them an immediate grasp of what were taught in school, when they began their studies. With the anime programs, where violence and fightings were basically the show's format, i noticed the boys became rowdy every time they finished watching the program. They would start jumping on the bed, throw pillows at each other, sometimes be at each other's throat, if you know what I mean. So I wanna ask this question to all of the mothers here. How good and bad would be the influence of television programs to your growing toddlers?