Children and TV
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day. They are not watching TV actually, but just being in the place with TV. And as they are getting older, they are getting more exposed to TV or other visual electronic media. I can say that they are exposed the environment with TV, and then they watch it.
It can't be helped that we are living in a flood of visual electronic media like TV. So even infants and toddlers watch TV, and they are influenced from it naturally. As we all know, TV has both pros and cons to children. Preschoolers can get help learning the alphabet more effectively with interesting songs on public television and grade students can learn about wildlife vividly on nature shows. But despite its advantages, there are much more disadvantages of it. Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. And kids who view violent acts are more likely to show aggressive behavior but also fear that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them. And TV characters often depict risky behaviors, such as smoking and drinking, and also reinforce gender-role and racial stereotypes. Although it is nearly impossible for children to eliminate all exposure to TV, they need to be protected from its bad effects. But it is easier than we thought to make them shorten the time for watching TV. Make some basic rules like, "Turn the TV off during meals" or "Turn the TV off while doing homework", and then give them rewards when they keep the rules. This method is really helpful. I'm doing education services for some elementary school students, and I use rewarding system as giving them a stamp when they do a good job in class. Stamps or stickers are also visual things, so children can get interested in gathering them. And also when children watch TV, we can be with them and explain the situation on TV enough and ask them some questions about what they see such as, "Do you think it was OK when those men got in that fight? What else could they have done? What would you have done?", or "What do you think about how those teenagers were acting at that party? Do you think what they were doing was wrong?"
Children can't make control themselves. And they are exposed to TV very much. So we should be with them and help them to take many advantages of it. It's quite easy to help them. If we, especially parents, take care of them a little more, they could be influenced for the better way from TV.
[Won Du Ho]
ReplyDelete1. Yes there are three paragraphs
2. yes it does
3. yes it is
4. yes, children are exposed to TV very much
5. I agree that kids who view violent acts are more likely to show aggressive behavior
[Lee Su A]
ReplyDelete1. Yes, it has 3 paragraphs
2. Yes, 'According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day.'
3. Yes, it dose.
4. Yes, she showed some disadvantanges of watching TV for children. And some advantages in front of the body paragraph might be a counter-argument, I think.
5. Yes, 'Children are exposed to TV very much, so we should be with them and help them to take many advantages of it.'
200903141 Jung Sun Hoa second draft
ReplyDeleteChildren and TV
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation - a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy - two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day. They are not watching TV actually, but just being in the place with TV. And as they are getting older, they are getting more exposed to TV or other visual electronic media. I can say that they are exposed the environment with TV, and then they watch it.
It can’t be helped that we are living in a flood of visual electronic media like TV. So even infants and toddlers watch TV, and they are influenced from it naturally. As we all know, TV has both pros and cons to children. Preschoolers can get help learning the alphabet more effectively with interesting songs on public television and grade students can learn about wildlife vividly on nature shows. But despite its advantages, there are much more disadvantages of it. Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. And kids who view violent acts are more likely to show aggressive behavior but also fear that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them. And TV characters often depict risky behaviors, such as smoking and drinking, and also reinforce gender-role and racial stereotypes. Although it is nearly impossible for children to eliminate all exposure to TV, they need to be protected from its bad effects. But it is easier than we thought to make them shorten the time for watching TV. Make some basic rules like, “Turn the TV off during meals” or “Turn the TV off while doing homework”, and then give them rewards when they keep the rules. This method is really helpful. I’m doing education services for some elementary school students, and I use rewarding system as giving them a stamp when they do a good job in class. Stamps or stickers are also visual things, so children can get interested in gathering them. And also when children watch TV, we can be with them and explain the situation on TV enough and ask them some questions about what they see such as, “Do you think it was OK when those men got in that fight? What else could they have done? What would you have done?", or "What do you think about how those teenagers were acting at that party? Do you think what they were doing was wrong?”
Children can’t make control themselves. And they are exposed to TV very much. So we should be with them and help them to take many advantages of it. It’s quite easy to help them. If we, especially parents, take care of them a little more, they could be influenced for the better way from TV.