EAC150 Research Essay: Television as a Bad Influence on Children

This essay examines the negative influence of television on children, arguing that while it can offer some educational benefits, the drawbacks outweigh the advantages. The essay highlights how excessive television watching can lead to increased aggression, reduced personal thinking, unhealthy eating habits, and decreased physical activity. It also discusses the role of parents in monitoring and controlling children's television consumption to mitigate these negative effects. The essay concludes that watching television should be made more productive by supervising children's viewing habits and limiting their screen time to reduce the adverse impacts.

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ENGLISH ESSAY
TELEVISION IS A BAD INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN
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TELEVISION IS A BAD INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN
Television is a bad influence on children
In today’s generation, television has become an integral part of habitats and imagining
life without it is not viable. It has become one of the greatest medium that provides
entertainment to all ages especially children. Children who are mostly attracted towards
watching television ages between 2-18 years and many guardians have even installed
television sets in their bedrooms. On an average, a child spends nearly 5-6 hours spending
their leisurely time in surfing Medias like computers, mobile phones and television (Block).
Among every Medias, television proves to be the most used among them.
Many researchers have found few benefits of television over children but negative impacts of
it have been mentioned more (Aabid). The optimists believe that television provides children
with knowledge and information’s about present world. Preschoolers can learn alphabets and
other sounds from watching educational channels and shows. But in families where parents
are working outside and leave their children with babysitters may be left unattended and
allowed to watch TV shows they are not supposed to watch. This means that a child is left
without supervision who can easily watch programmes related to violence and adulteries
(Nash). Watching of such rudiments may develop fear among children about violence in
society along with creating unhealthy intuition that some evil might happen to them also. In
short, television creates lack of confidence in child along with making them feel more
insecure (Paediatrics & Child Health ).
Although academics do not judge effect of television in negative manner, but finding of
scholars states that television increased aggressiveness among children which indirectly
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shows a negative sign (Turow). Excessive watching of television reduces child’s personal
thinking and plagues children behaviour with others. Constant watching of violence and
superheroes jumping around can even make children perform dangerous activities. In another
survey it was proved that watching more television made child unhealthy as eating snacks
while watching television was found to be common in most of the children (Ólafsdóttir).
Reduced physical activities made children sit at home premises thereby reducing contacts
with others. This again shows bad influence as if the child does not meet with more people,
he/she can become self restrained and dull (Jusoff).
On concluding note it can be said that watching television has bad influence on children
which results in building unhealthy lifestyle. Watching excessive television also results in
losing control of parents over children (Murray). Another negative impact is that children
starts losing interest in daily household works and becomes unaware of self maintained
lifestyle. Parents also play significant role here by allowing their children watching excessive
television. If they are controlled at early stage, chances of getting addiction in them can be
reduced. According to the theorists, watching violent programmes makes children violent but
stopping them from watching it makes them aggressive (Thomas). This shows the amount of
addiction created by televisions. At the end it can be said that watching television shall be
made more productive by keeping an eye on children while watching television along with
monitoring the amount of time they spend in it so that bad influence of television on children
is reduced.
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References:
Aabid, Mahesh Chandra Guru and Raja Raslana. Role of Television in Child Development.
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<https://hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/Vol08x19IsTelevi
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Jusoff, Kamaruzaman. Television and Media Literacy in Young Children: Issues and Effects
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<https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1065705.pdf>.
Murray, John P. Television Violence And Its Impact On Children.Web. 14 April 2018
<http://www.ocd.pitt.edu/Files/PDF/sr1995-12.pdf>.
Nash, Karen J. Pine and Avril. Dear Santa: The effects of television advertising on young
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Paediatrics & Child Health . Impact of media use on children and youth. 2003.Web 14 April
2018 <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792691/>.
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Thomas, Sujala S.Nair and P.E. A Thematic study on the cause and effects of Television
Violence on Children . 2012. 14 April 2018 <http://www.ipedr.com/vol31/035-
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Turow, Joseph. The Effects of Television on Children: What the Experts Believe. 1985. 14
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f>.
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