Watching too much TV can harm children in several ways. It can negatively influence their development of values through exposure to violence, sex, and alcohol in TV programs. It can also negatively impact their physical health by reducing fitness and potentially leading to obesity from lack of exercise and exposure to junk food advertising. Additionally, excessive TV watching can prevent children from gaining important social skills by interacting in the real world, which they will need to develop for healthy social and emotional functioning. While TV can provide some educational benefits, the harms of too much viewing outweigh any positives.

1. Hui Yang<br />Mr. Koci<br />EG 101 [H]<br />28th March 2011<br />Let TV Go Far away from Our Children<br />Maybe you will have this experience, if you turn on the television and then you will find your naughty kids will be clam and concentrate on the TV programs. With science develops, there are hundred of TV programs are played everyday so you don’t need to worry about your kids will bother you especially at weekends or in the vocations. The TV will be your kids’ honest friend and stay with them forever. But is that a good way for our kids? Absolutely no. Watching TV will make our kids intend to be influenced by violence, sex and alcohol; lead to fitness to kids and even prevent the kids for learning the social skills.<br />Since TV was come out in 1950s, the development of TV has a great progress. Nowadays, when you turn on the TV, you will find there are all kinds of TV programs when you press your remote controller. Among the TV programs, violence, sex and alcohol information are contained and it will influence our kids with the more information they get. The indicated of this incorrect information will in a negative effect in kids forming their life values. Researches show that if children watch TV for a long time, they will become easier to get such information from some dramas, cartoons or advertisements and that will become one part of forming their recognize of lives and world.<br />The other harmful aspect of watching TV is that kids who watch too much TV will have some physical diseases, especially the fitness. Long time in sitting in front of television without any movement and thinking, just stare at the screen and let any information come into your brain. This is very bad for children that without movements in a long time and that will lead to the kids gather fat. Fatness has become a serious social problem and it will cause other diseases to kids, such as heart diseases. Lacking of doing exercises instead of sitting for a long time and eating much junk food is the main reason of fatness, and the true killer is TV.<br />The third damage of watching TV is that it will prevent kids be far away from the real world and gain no social experience. As we know, all of our surroundings are social, that is, we are living in the social community and we need to face social activities everyday. If kids can’t experience enough social processes, they will feel more stress when they enter to social in the future. More social problems will make them feel dressed and upset, and it will prevent them to attend social activates and stay at home as possible as they can. At the stages of growing up, kids need more opportunities to know more about the functions or concepts of their living environment. Although they can also know some information about the world’s today, they still have the general impressions about the world and no real acknowledge. Social skills are one of the most important parts of a person and it will affect he or she the further development in the future. Obviously, children stay with TV for long time and have no other time and interest and faiths to go outside in order to gain more social experiences, they will become more and more addicted to rely on TV if they meet problems in social life.<br />Many people will say that TV also has positive effect to children. For example, there are abundant programs on TV, such as news or discovery explorations, which can enhance children’s reorganization children can know about much knowledge on TV. Children who watch TV will have more knowledge and aboard perspectives. <br />