Watching
Children While Watching Television
Television is an electronic
device that use as telecommunication medium to perform moving image and sound.Television
has become commonplace in homes, businesses and institutions,advertisment
spot, a source of entertainment, and news. Television is an important thing to get many information
around the world since TV has exsist in all of country in the world. Most of
people in the world usually spend their break time to watch television everyday,including
the children.Of course, TV can be a good thing for children,children can learn
about many things or places they haven’t seen before,for example on nature shows
and news programs. Watch cartoon show in television also become major activity
for children,they like watching cartoon because it is interesting and
entertaining for them.
Beside it’s advantage,television
also can influence a bad thing to the children,so children need more
attention,specially from their parent while watching television. While children
spend most of their time by watching TV,they waste their time for important
activity such as studying,family time,school work and exercise in the same time.
Television also shows violence, sexuality, race and gender stereotypes,drugs
and alcohol abuse that can make the children become curious and want to imitate
it,reminds that children are easily learn and very curious about something
strange for them although they are not really understand which is good or bad
to do. As a result,children who watch television are possible to have lower grades
in school,read fewer books,exercise less,more emotional and careless.
To prevent any useless and bad thing
that can influence the children,it is very necessary to watching children while
they watching television. Parent must be selective of television programs,choose
the program which educative for their children. Parent should conduct a discussion
with their children about the show in television,is it good or bad to imitate.
Parent also have to make a kind of rule about when the time for watch TV and when
the time for study to their children. Start watching the children while watching
TV is begin to save them from moral degradation.
