The argument about the advantages and disadvantages
of children watching TV appear on the media very often. I tend to agree that it
do more harm than good.
Watching TV is a passive activity. When
children watch TV, their brain accept the information passively, that means
they don’t have enough brain activities that could help their brain develop. A clear
evidence is when children watch TV they almost stop any movement expect watching.
It is so different with other activities like talking or sporting. Some science
study show that even the fingers’ movement is very important for children who
are under 5. Even worse, children don’t need to have any feedback when they
watch TV, even the programmers is educational, if they stop thinking by
themself, it is not very useful for learning. For example, some parents want
their child learn the knowledge from TV classes, but later they found that it
is less effective than accepting education face to face, because the children
focus on the picture but not what teach say.
Some experts like Dr. Christak, director of
Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute
believes that if watching TV is harm for children depends on the contents of
the TV programmes, but I think the children shouldn’t watching TV very often
whatever the contents are.
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