Children watching TV
Everybody knows this and everybody still does it - to let children watch too much TV is not necessarily a good thing. Salon.com reports on a study, that states that every hour preschoolers watch TV would increase the chances of having attention and concentration problems by 10% in their later life.
It is just too easy nowadays to switch on the TV and get entertained - Cartoon Channel, Disney etc. The problem is that it is a constant boom, boom, boom - action, action, action, besides the violence. It is also a problem that parents frequently don't highlight the background of the story - if they are in. In Asia, kids are often alone in the afternoon, with parents working and only the maid around. So what is easier than switching on the TV?
One advantage is often forgotten, so - kids can learn English while watching TV. I heard of a lot of children, who mastered the language, learnt it while watching TV. It is the general surrounding or environment that is important - what else is in a kid's environment that inspires them? Do the parents read books, or talk? Bring the children out to places that show diversity and something different?
As usual, everything has its pro and con, and too much of everything is bad. But we had the MTV generation starting in the 1980s and they turned out quite okay. We had the rockers in the 1970s, and the Punks in the Western world. So every generation has its problems - and will get a handle on it. Society will shape accordingly and values change - this might be something that should be studied in much more detail.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
It is just too easy nowadays to switch on the TV and get entertained - Cartoon Channel, Disney etc. The problem is that it is a constant boom, boom, boom - action, action, action, besides the violence. It is also a problem that parents frequently don't highlight the background of the story - if they are in. In Asia, kids are often alone in the afternoon, with parents working and only the maid around. So what is easier than switching on the TV?
One advantage is often forgotten, so - kids can learn English while watching TV. I heard of a lot of children, who mastered the language, learnt it while watching TV. It is the general surrounding or environment that is important - what else is in a kid's environment that inspires them? Do the parents read books, or talk? Bring the children out to places that show diversity and something different?
As usual, everything has its pro and con, and too much of everything is bad. But we had the MTV generation starting in the 1980s and they turned out quite okay. We had the rockers in the 1970s, and the Punks in the Western world. So every generation has its problems - and will get a handle on it. Society will shape accordingly and values change - this might be something that should be studied in much more detail.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 9:44 pm
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