In today 's generation, TV is one of the most important tools used to help children learn new things, although there are some shows that can be a bad influence on children. The parents should take the responsibility of monitoring, to some degree, the shows there children choose to watch. For instance, parents should encourage children to watch discovery channels and news channels, so that kids may know about the beauties and the realities of life. There are some possible positive effects of spending time watching TV; however, the negatives effects far outweigh the positives effects. Children who watch television all day experience problems in the areas of time management, focusing, behavioral patterns, and health and athletic abilities.
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Television makes children socially secluded. Also, they dedicate less time in doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends. All of these activities help to shape children into becoming well rounded people who have interests and opinions that lead to conversations. Kate Moody, in her 1980 book, Growing Up On Television says, “Television is one-way communication; it talks to the child but doesn’t hear the child.” TV shows images to the child but cannot notice or apprehend the child responses. It needs no social interaction. This is an unnatural way to learn. Rosemary Sage, a specialist in the development of communication expert, says Why no quotation marks around this? Isn’t this a quote?→ that children who tend to watch too much television learn to develop images.They do or DO NOT learn to develop images? Sage goes on to say, “This does not allow them to think, speak or reflect and hinders a child from developing important language …show more content…
Indicate/introduce the author and work to show where this statement is coming from “Whereas cigarettes damage the lungs, television damages the mind.” Cigarette and alcohol are shown to be the 2nd most dangerous threat to children. ←If you got this statistic from a source you need to say where and put a footnote for it. More than $30 billion per year is spent on promoting tobacco, alcohol, and prescription drugs, and such promotion has been shown to be legal.←She will want to see how do you know this and where you got it from. →A child who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol is 80 times more likely to use marijuana, eventually. Children who start experimenting are most likely to have a greater risk of experiencing serious health problems. If parents restrict how much their children are exposed to the promotion of cigarette smoking then they can help secure that their children are not learning incorrect and misleading information about the effects of drug use from television shows they view. The biggest and most accurate of these (these what?) was the National Television Violence Study, which studied the numbers and background of violence on American television(on American television what’s? Channels? Viewers?) for three straight years. The results show that 60 percent of broadcasts on television hold violence. (Where did you get this info from?)
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Television makes children socially secluded. Also, they dedicate less time in doing homework, reading, sports, and interacting with the family and friends. All of these activities help to shape children into becoming well rounded people who have interests and opinions that lead to conversations. Kate Moody, in her 1980 book, Growing Up On Television says, “Television is one-way communication; it talks to the child but doesn’t hear the child.” TV shows images to the child but cannot notice or apprehend the child responses. It needs no social interaction. This is an unnatural way to learn. Rosemary Sage, a specialist in the development of communication expert, says Why no quotation marks around this? Isn’t this a quote?→ that children who tend to watch too much television learn to develop images.They do or DO NOT learn to develop images? Sage goes on to say, “This does not allow them to think, speak or reflect and hinders a child from developing important language …show more content…
Indicate/introduce the author and work to show where this statement is coming from “Whereas cigarettes damage the lungs, television damages the mind.” Cigarette and alcohol are shown to be the 2nd most dangerous threat to children. ←If you got this statistic from a source you need to say where and put a footnote for it. More than $30 billion per year is spent on promoting tobacco, alcohol, and prescription drugs, and such promotion has been shown to be legal.←She will want to see how do you know this and where you got it from. →A child who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol is 80 times more likely to use marijuana, eventually. Children who start experimenting are most likely to have a greater risk of experiencing serious health problems. If parents restrict how much their children are exposed to the promotion of cigarette smoking then they can help secure that their children are not learning incorrect and misleading information about the effects of drug use from television shows they view. The biggest and most accurate of these (these what?) was the National Television Violence Study, which studied the numbers and background of violence on American television(on American television what’s? Channels? Viewers?) for three straight years. The results show that 60 percent of broadcasts on television hold violence. (Where did you get this info from?)