TV and children ...
By Live2Learn
@Live2Learn (272)
United States
5 responses
@season0907 (671)
• India
21 Dec 07
Hi Live2Learn,
I have no doubt that TV is interferring negatively on children.We as adult, know that TV is only an entertainment box and it should be used only for a little while. But children are not like us. They don't even agree with us. They see what they like and spend lot of time on watching TV,by which they are loosing time for studies.Scientifically speaking, TV reduces the other activities of the children and the brain cells pertaining to IQ will become sedentary.
@Live2Learn (272)
• United States
21 Dec 07
TV kills brain cells...that is what I have always heard, kind of as a joke, but I have always said that b/c it kind of does. I will come home and say hi or go to bed and say good night or leave and say good bye or say to the kids, "Hey, I need to you to...." and when the TV is on, it is like talking to a wall. Total zombies! It drives me nuts.
I noticed as my 13 year old sister was growing up her fav cartoon was Rugrats....she turned into such a little brat...that dam* Angelica!
@RowenaTheWitch (947)
• Italy
20 Dec 07
Cartoons? Not so much. Programs like reality shows, music videos, everything with Paris Hilton in it? Yes.
I'm not a crusader for morality, but those programs really teach wrong values (reality shows teach that you can be succesful as long as you are arrogant and a total jackass, music videos are full of naked women waving their butt)
Keep your children away from them ;)
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
24 Dec 07
I think cartoons are the start of shaping our childrens minds. Some cartoons are rather violent, but there are many wholesome ones out there, but it's not like back in the day when we were kids. There was always a morale to the story. I really don't think cartoons have a negative effect though. I kinda think the rugrats is a little off the wall though. Humm.. toddlers who go around doing whatever they want, and parents don't notice. I think as children grow out of the cartoon stage is when parents need to be concerned. They are able to watch more shows without parents monitoring what they watch. Have tv remote and will channel surf. Before cable we only basically had 3 or 4 stations to choose from. Now there is a whole world at our child's finger tips.
@Live2Learn (272)
• United States
21 Jan 08
oh jeez, i couldn't agree more. i recently made the mistake of teaching my 3 year old how to use our tv remote and we have satellite. aargh...he will pick up the remote and not really know what he is doing but I think I may have opened the door to a nightmare ;-)
but i definitely agree.
@UnselfishShellfish (1306)
• United States
22 Dec 07
They learn if you let them learn.
If you teach them right from wrong and explain that just because an actor or an actress acts some way on TV that does not mean that the child can get away with the same behavior.
YOU as a parent are responsible for teaching the child.
Don't b*tch and moan that the TV did it. Wrong. You did it by allowing your child to watch those shows without telling them the difference between TV (fantasy) and life (reality).
@Live2Learn (272)
• United States
22 Dec 07
I agree with you, don't get me wrong.
The other night though, my step-son was watching Borat with his dad. My step-son is 7 years old and I don't think that this type of entertainment is appropriate for a child his age, but he is not technically my son ( I like to think of him as such, but...) in reality he is my boyfriends son and I can only say, do you really think that is age appropriate for him? So, when he is seeing things on there or wherever, whatever it is about...violent or skanky music videos (whatever)....it is easy to explain, this is fantasy...not real? It is still in his mind and he will think about it. Right? What if he catches those stupid reality shows...I don't know...
I mean what am I suppose to say? They are going to see it at some point, if it isn't here then someplace else right?
@TITANC19 (33)
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20 Dec 07
i think you must to be very carful with your kids
in that
so you can make asestym to that if you want
