As the saying goes “monkey see monkey do”, and these days with reality television we do not know exactly what information a child will retain and copy. In a survey conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute, it was found that thirty seven percent of girls who watched reality television agreed that “you have to lie to get what you want”, while only twenty four percent of the girls who do not watch reality television agreed. Furthermore, in the same survey it was also revealed that seventy percent of all the girls questioned agreed that “reality television leads people to think it’s okay to treat people badly” (“Girls and reality TV”1). This information shows that though we may think that our children are just watching “non-sense” television, they could be picking up on unfavorable pretenses of the future and how to succeed in
As the saying goes “monkey see monkey do”, and these days with reality television we do not know exactly what information a child will retain and copy. In a survey conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute, it was found that thirty seven percent of girls who watched reality television agreed that “you have to lie to get what you want”, while only twenty four percent of the girls who do not watch reality television agreed. Furthermore, in the same survey it was also revealed that seventy percent of all the girls questioned agreed that “reality television leads people to think it’s okay to treat people badly” (“Girls and reality TV”1). This information shows that though we may think that our children are just watching “non-sense” television, they could be picking up on unfavorable pretenses of the future and how to succeed in