One Negative Effect of TV on Kids Is Laziness

One negative effect of TV on kids is laziness.

Today’s children have become overweight because they’re just being in front of the TV. By this laziness, they’re not being active. At times they will eat in front of the TV, making their food not digest properly, which leads to being overweight.

[Sharon A., Sujin, Ebony]

…because it has too many channels with different kind of entertainment, that keep children sitting in front of the television for a long period of time. For example, my cousin who is 9 years old, he starts to watch cartoon’s chanels right after school until he goes to the bed. As a result he doesn’t spend time to do other activities, such as homework, playing with other kids, eating at regular times, and interacting with his family. For this reason, it is not a good idea that kids is spend a lot of time watching TV because it make the children inactive.

[Mirella, Katie, Pat]

Another problem with TV watching & kids is that children may have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is not.

It’s easy to get the wrong idea what happens in the TV screen, happen in reality. Whatever happens on the screen, kids would do the same actions from whatever they saw on their TV screen. For example, watching Power Ranger, a kid focus on one actor that fight on the screen, the kid would take the same action when in real life, the kid cannot fight, and he could get hurt.

[Le, Kristina, Uphar]

Children sometimes believe everything what they heard and watched. This causes a big problem because they create their own ideas and do the same in real life. For example, if children watch an action movie that is a lot of violence, this may be a bad influence for them. When children watch this kind of movies, they want to do it in the real life. A boy in Russia killed his father with a gun because he watched on TV how people kill each other. The child realized that he can do it in real life, so he took a gun and killed his father in the simple way like on TV. Because of this, parents should be alert of what their children watch and teach them that everything on TV is not real. [Victor, Maria, Julian]

Firstly, children try to be like the characters on TV, so they act like character’s actions on TV. For instance, my little brothers do the same actions as the characters in Power Ranger when they watch that fiction movie on TV. Moreover, kids will not know which is good thing or which is bad thing. In fact, my little brother, Andy, follows the cartoons which the character influents him to eat junk food. In review, TV affects a lot on kids’ behavior. [Jessica, Su, Ana]

Finally, television may lead children to …

…be more aggressive. After watching negative shows they get more violent. Sometimes children imitate the actions from characters that they chose as an idol or hero that they see on TV. They get more violent when they watch the characters fight in the movies or cartoon. Children try to imitate the actions such as crimes like stilling or bad behavior. After a movie had been released which contained a lot of violence, a lot of crimes were committed by young people in Russia. Young people thought that it was okay to commit crimes and escape from being punished like it happened in the movie. Young people may think that something bad is good because they saw it on TV. Therefore people should control what their children watch on TV. [Anthony, Pavel, BenBin]
… have fewer imagination and social skills. To give you an illustration, when they watch TV everything is already done for them. The TV programs don’t let kids use their imagination. Another point will be losing their communication skills. Children spend their free time watching TV and don’t have any conversation with family and friends. Because of that matter, they lose contact with friends. Therefore, television can decrease children’s imagination skills and cause them to have a hard time communicating with others. [Liz, Sharon G., Valeriya]

… do bad things. Watching a lot of action movies may cause the children to be more violent to other people. For example, after children who watched the action movie may imitate fighting, killing, and speaking bad words. Also seeing a lot of smoking on TV may cause children to smoke in the future and influence others to smoke as well. One more bad thing of TV often result in bad habits. Children may not want to do daily chores like, cleaning their rooms, washing dishes, not accurately doing school homework. In conclusion, watching TV may lead children to inherit bad things.

[Yelena, Kary, Xani]