Television’s Bad Effects in Family’s Life

Nowadays, watching television is already become a common habit in the families. It happens because television has provided a lot of entertainment programs (besides news and education programs) that attract many people to watch television more often than they used to. Unfortunately, some families do not realize that this habit also gives bad effects, especially to the children. In my opinion, sometimes watching television can cause a lack of communication between the children and the parents. Moreover, some programs also give bad effects to children’s life style and their way of thinking.

In some families, watching television habit can cause a lack of communication between the children and the parents. The main factors that causes this problem is that both the children and the parents prefer watching television to having a chat together. In some other cases, some children have their own televisions in their rooms. This situation allows them to come out rarely of their privacy rooms and only have little time to communicate with their parents. If this situation is not change, the family will have a lot of argumentations that will disrupt the family’s harmony.

In fact, some programs in television also give bad effects to the children’s life style. There are some programs that effect children’s fashion style. They are often influenced by western or Japanese styles which are not fit to Indonesia n culture. In other situation, many programs set glamour life as main aspect in the scene. Those kinds of programs increase their desire to change their life style into the style which is shown on television. To fulfill this desire, they are willing to spend a lot of money. This condition is likely the same to consumerism and will endanger family’s finance.

Besides that, watching television also give bad effects in children’s way of thinking. It happens because there are some programs in television which is broadcasted in unsuitable time or do not have morality aspects. For example, there are films that show criminal or pornography actions. If many children watch those films without guidance from their parents, they will think that those criminal actions are legal to do. This problem becomes more serious because some children also try to resemble those bad actions.

According to the argumentations above, it can be concluded that besides gives many advantages, watching television also give bad effects to family’s life especially the children. Some bad programs in television can drive their way of thinking and life style into worse condition. Watching television habit also causes a lack of communication among the family.

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