Effects of Tv on a Child

Sitting in school, my brother thinks anxiously watching the clock. The teacher is talking to the class, but he just can't wait to get home. When the bell finally rings, he runs out of the classroom, and all the way home. After blasting in the house, he runs to turn on the TV. Having nothing more exciting to do, he would sit in front of the television until my mom pulls him away for dinner. This is a familiar scenario in many homes nowadays. What many people don't realize, are the problems that can develop from young children watching too much TV. Many emerging dilemmas are resulting from this concern. When a young child with a maturing brain sits in front of the TV for several hours every day, it can instigate loss of creativity, impatience, and violence further in the future.

The ability to be creative is an important factor in the development of a young child's mind. By sitting down and watching TV for a couple hours, the child is entertained, but is also not thinking. Information in spoon-fed to them, so when it comes time to read a book in school, some can have a hard time grasping ideas. They are so used to having images flash before them to provide understanding; they have trouble moving their eyes side to side to gather the information for themselves. With the TV in front of them, supplying amusement, they may never stop to think that putting a puzzle together or reading a book could also be fun. They could actually become dependent on this one source of fantasy, and never bother to create their own. As the child grows older, he is less likely to put effort into playing with other kids, or taking up a hobby.

While losing creativity, the child can also gain impatience. By having all the stories and facts plastered clear in front of them, they can easily loose interest sitting in a classroom all day. Even during their favorite TV show, there is a brief change of pace in the story line when a commercial comes on, which is about every seven minutes. Their attention is being disturbed by this continuous interruption, causing them to loose focus easily. This could explain the fact that teachers today are using many more multimedia devices to capture the student's attention. Being so used to seeing information provided by the TV, the child is more responsive to learning with it in school, and are more likely to remember it. Many links are revealed between attention deficit, and watching too much television in elementary children. It is becoming more common

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