Television has become one of inseparable things in human life. Statistic says about 8 from 10 ten houses in Indonesia has a TV. But, do you know that this little electronic box could bring a lot of trouble to human life? In my opinion, I definitely agree that television is dangerous and could destroy family life and any aspect of socialize because of its programs. My main concern is the television effects for children and teenager. This little box alone can cause a violent and moral less and aggressive behavior, poor school performance, obesity, early sexual activity, and drug or alcohol use. I’m going to explain you these effects one by one so you all can understand why those things can happen.
Firstly, nowadays television has become children best friend in the house while the parents busy with their job. Children could spend about 3-5 hours a day just to watch television without parent’s guidance. They do a lot of things with TV as their friends. For example, they eat in front of TV, because of some show, they forget to take a bath, take a nap, forget to study and forget to do a lot of things beside watching TV. This things show that a lot of children are addicted to television.
Addicted to television will give bad impacts to the children. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to study, in the end they show poor school performance. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to take a bath or to do other activities, they eat a lot in front of the TV, in the end they will grow as lazy children, who prefer to watch TV than do other productive activities. Because they addicted to TV, family social life ruined. Communication between parents and the children limited. Parents hard to know their children development, and the children know their TV better than their parents.
Television is not 100% bad. It also gives some educative entertainment that our children need and like. For example cartoon like Teletubbies, Spongebob, and many more. They can learn a lot about friendship, family and many more from that show. Then, it will develop their ability and knowledge about life.
The problem is not all TV’s programs are cartoon. There are still a lot of TV’s programs that are not for children consume. Such as, WWF, adult drama, reality show like Fear Factor, criminal news and many more.
As children, they hard to filter what is wrong and what is right from what they see. But, they learn really fast in their age. If they find something really interesting, they will try to do the same thing alone. Without parent’s guidance, children could do violent action just because watching television. In 2007, some kids in Indonesia died because they saw WWF and Naruto in TV and tried to do the same action in the real life with their friends. They hit one to another exactly like what they saw in TV. They didn’t know that Naruto and WWF are not real. Other TV show such as adult drama could make children have early sexual activity just because find it really interesting.
Firstly, nowadays television has become children best friend in the house while the parents busy with their job. Children could spend about 3-5 hours a day just to watch television without parent’s guidance. They do a lot of things with TV as their friends. For example, they eat in front of TV, because of some show, they forget to take a bath, take a nap, forget to study and forget to do a lot of things beside watching TV. This things show that a lot of children are addicted to television.
Addicted to television will give bad impacts to the children. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to study, in the end they show poor school performance. Because they addicted to TV, they forget to take a bath or to do other activities, they eat a lot in front of the TV, in the end they will grow as lazy children, who prefer to watch TV than do other productive activities. Because they addicted to TV, family social life ruined. Communication between parents and the children limited. Parents hard to know their children development, and the children know their TV better than their parents.
Television is not 100% bad. It also gives some educative entertainment that our children need and like. For example cartoon like Teletubbies, Spongebob, and many more. They can learn a lot about friendship, family and many more from that show. Then, it will develop their ability and knowledge about life.
The problem is not all TV’s programs are cartoon. There are still a lot of TV’s programs that are not for children consume. Such as, WWF, adult drama, reality show like Fear Factor, criminal news and many more.
As children, they hard to filter what is wrong and what is right from what they see. But, they learn really fast in their age. If they find something really interesting, they will try to do the same thing alone. Without parent’s guidance, children could do violent action just because watching television. In 2007, some kids in Indonesia died because they saw WWF and Naruto in TV and tried to do the same action in the real life with their friends. They hit one to another exactly like what they saw in TV. They didn’t know that Naruto and WWF are not real. Other TV show such as adult drama could make children have early sexual activity just because find it really interesting.
From those arguments above, we can conclude that addicted to Television will give a lot of bad impact to the children. They become lazy, forget to study, their parents-children communication ruined, and also could make them do violent action and have early sexual activity. In my opinion, the solutions for this problem are the parents have to limit their children time to watch TV, and always guide the children while the children are watching TV and teach them what is wrong and what is right.
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