The Negative Effects Of Sesame Street

Register to read the introduction… Most of these studies are conducted on the program Sesame Street. It is hard to find out any one that was not raised by watching Sesame Street. It integrates visually stimulating content that appeals to children with excellent educational content embedded into the show that have had an enormous effect on children. These effects are supported by studies. In the early 1980s, a study was conducted to find out if the viewing of Sesame Street led to improved vocabulary scores of children. It was shown that children who frequently viewed Sesame Street improved more than non-frequent viewers on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, a test that controls for family characteristics that might affect scores (Huston, 1998). Sesame Street also has implications that go further than helping those in pre-school. It has been shown that Sesame Street viewing correlated into higher grades in later schooling. The most striking finding was that frequent viewers of Sesame Street and other child informative programs at age 5 had higher high school grades in English, math, and science than infrequent viewers, even with controls for early language ability and the educational level achieved by parents (Huston, 1998). There are many more studies that can be quoted that show that television can and is a very important medium for children. …show more content…
It's possible to speak verbally in front of the class, or create posters and/or little pamphlets to give to the children. Showing examples of the current media that is available and their depiction of different groups of people can also help prevent things such as stereotyping and racism if the children can learn about these things continuously throughout school. If the media available is not suitable, why not create one that is suitable for use in the …show more content…
Maybe the children can play a game to win prizes (like candy for young children or extra credit for the older kids), so that they are being entertained while learning. It becomes important to teach children about other people because many times, people are afraid of what they don't know, and perhaps showing that not all people are the same and allowing them to interact with a different variety of people would change things over time. I also feel that self esteem and self image play an important role to prevent the psychological dependency on certain things such as trying to have the perfect model figure or trying to be the toughest guy in the play ground.Television and media play a role in children feeling bad about themselves, as if they aren't as cool or good looking as the next person because they may have certain self image issues.

One thing that is important to teach the children of today is that it is crucial to be proud of who they are. Teaching them that they should believe in themselves and in their own opinions may allow them to feel better about how they look and feel and can even possibly give them more confidence in themselves to work their hardest at being the best they can