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Nguyen Hoang Ngan

Tran Kim Ngan

Nguyen Thi Thao Nguyen

Nguyen Thi Dam Sen

THE NEGATIVE INFLUENCES OF TV ON CHILDREN

Nowadays, television has proved its position in the daily life. TV, with its variety of functions, opens a new era to humans civilization. However, the negative effects of TV in our life, especially on children, are unavoidable. The three most significant ones are on childrens creative thinking, their study and their behaviors.

The most obvious danger of watching TV too much is to harm childrens creative thinking. They just sit in front of the TV all the day, and receive passive information. As a result, television kills childrens ability to form pictures in his mind. A case in point is that a child cannot understand a simple story without visual illustrations. In other words, children become very receptive and unquestioning.

Another disadvantageous influence is that children will neglect their study. There are so many interesting channels for children to watch, no matter what the time is. Frankly speaking, kids can sink into watching television. TV takes up too much childrens time and makes them withdraw from the real life. Less time for study is certainly a result of such TV watching. Besides, childrens learning quality is also affected since they are very exhausted after long hours of TVs watching.

Last but not least, childrens behavior can be impacted due to some unhealthy and bad scenes on the TV screen. While watching TV, children are often exposed to the scenes of violence, murder and sex. They have a tendency to regard them as a normal matter in the daily life. As a consequence, children may copy harmful acts that they see on television and accept them as a natural part of life.

In conclusion, besides the benefits of television, several negative influences on our young generation are undeniable. Therefore, people should have the suitable ways to prevent kids from bad TV programs and control their habit of watching TV as well

TV'S EFFECTS ON CHILDREN

In the age of technology, TV becomes an integral part of human beings. However, TV has bad effects on children's health as well as their behaviors if they watch TV too much.

The most obvious consequence of TV is that it influences children's health. First, children spend many hours on watching TV without relaxing, so their eyes will be tired. If this lasts for a long time, their eyes are more likely to be short-sighted. Second, children often eat fast food such as snack, popcorn, or biscuit while they are watching TV. Moreover, the physical activities are rarely performed by the children. It is the reason why children are overweight when they watch TV too much.

What's more, children's behaviors are also impacted by TV's programs. Some TV's programs have unrealistic and unhealthy contents, so children have tendency to get wrong thoughts and actions. Besides, films violence also impacts children. They may mimic and apply such actions to reality.

In brief, TV leads to some certain drawbacks for both health and attitude of children. Therefore, parents should limit children's time of watching TV.