Should we monitor what children watch on TV?
Television is often debated when it comes to education. Should we allow a child to watch television? How long? Can we let a child watch any program? The TV is also a means of information and learning or a source of violence to a child?
The TV is a tool of daily life. Nowadays, it is difficult to prevent a child from watching television without being regarded by him as a punishment. Also, watch some programs and be able to talk is part of the culture, references to his social group. Television can be seen as a means of integration and socialization in a group.
Television, for the variety of its programs, allows the child a spiritual enrichment. Indeed, the scenarios in which the child is a witness through the films, documentary or otherwise, allow it to integrate behavioral, social norms and knowledge by another medium that school.
Some authors explains that even the remote allows the child, identifying with the characters from the small screen, to define some notion of everyday life and to deconstruct stereotypes. The TV allows here to mark the distinction between reality and fantasy.
Television and violence among children
At each age is learning and the integration of specific standards. Television can be a good way of learning and expansion of thought, if and only if its use is regulated by the parents and the images viewed are not of a traumatic nature. Indeed, some studies observed a correlation between television viewing and violent behavior develop. Children trying to reproduce behavior observed on television. Moreover, your no longer a child stays long in front of the TV, the more it will effectively isolate the socialized and Isolation can also lead to development of aggressive behavior.
Children, TV and love relationship
The child and adolescent are constantly looking for benchmarks and models to address relations with others, friendly and loving. The subject is difficult to deal with parents, often to the media and in particular to television they look.
However, the image of sexuality on TV this may confuse and devalue the teenager. Indeed, it is often idealized to the point it may seem completely inaccessible (as is often the case in advertising or in many series), or it is systematically related to violence, or bare feelings (as in pornographic films).
In the end, what to do?
In the light of various studies on the subject, it is clear that TV is not completely beneficial nor completely dangerous. It is important for it to be an educational and development that parents talk with their children in different programs which are always possible or not to watch. Establish a time for dialogue between parents and children, following the screening of a film – documentary or otherwise – can reduce feelings of violence and insecurity felt by a child who watches TV.