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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Television, a Threat of Community Sense

In the recent time, almost every household all over the world at least have one of the most common electronic machine product, called television. Televisions are watched by almost 90 percent of the population each week and overall have 27 per cent share of total viewing. Among the findings cited in the I.B.M survey in the United States, 9 percent said they spent time watching TV, while 66 percent reported viewing between one to four hours of TV per day. This percentage increased as well as the development of the function it has, not to mention video recording, plus watching DVD, listen to the music or playing video game. Summary, television has been treated as one of formal need which has the function of both education and entertain. In my opinion, I believe that television is responsible for the lack of communication with the family or socialize with other people.

Firstly, television usually takes much of our daily time. Normally, it would take at least one or two hours for short to watch television. With nowadays feature and many worldwide channels for cabels, a lot of interesting tv programmes is shown in order. This would attract us to watch tv for long period of time, more than it needs. Because of that, main activities that we should finish first are put aside, leave behind and cause such catasthrope later. Soon we realize that we don't have much time to do our actual job, and have done it in hurry. After that work, it is expected that our stamina had already drained and we just too tired to do anything else, not to mentioned talking with our family. If this happened frequently, lack communication within the member of the family would cause a gap distant in mind for each other. This distant is dangerous, it could cause miscommunication and small or even serious fight. This happened because we couldn't manage time wisely to barely listen to our own family problems and though.

Yet, some people believe that television could be used as a gathering event with the family member. It has double advantage factor, one is for educate, to know interesting information or important news that happened. The other is just to have some fun, release tension after work and have light little chat with our family.

However, while watching television, we hardly would have a conversation with other people. This is because we concentrate in watching the programme the television shown, so we don't pay too much attention of what the other people might say. If there's a slight chance of the conversation happened, it would just revolve around about comment of the television programme that had been watched.

The other factor, television could cause negative effect that makes greater distance to parents-children relationship. As for case for visiting people, like relatives, friends or have a conversation with the family, most of children found that it is kind of boring activities compared to watching TV. It is true that television could give many entertaiment for children. Not only basic television programme, but it also could be used to watching DVD or VCD movie, playing many game console, even connect to the internet. Many cases, showed that children prefer to watch television rather than have a talk with their parents. The worst, children feel easier to be alone enjoying themselves in front of the television, and become lazy to interact with other people and socialize with them. This could destroy sense of community with both friends and parents.

The conclusion is, although television is in fact one of the useful and entertaining eletronic item, it could give us trouble if we don't know how to manage our time wisely, the worst outcome is it could destroy family life and any sense of community. However, it trully depends on our personality and judges, whether we choose to spend time wisely or just do as we pleased.