Television has a negative effect on teenagers because it promotes violence... This is True! Teenagers nowadays watch television all throughout the day. They watch at all times without restrictions that differentiating the good and bad and which to and not to follow is a difficult task for them. The television is not a reality, but a make believe.
The television can be a powerful influence in the behavioral development, in growth and value formation. In my opinion, television can cause violence to children that results them to likely use aggressive strategies to solve their problems rather than search for more peaceful methods of conflict resolution. Children seeing too much violence at a young age are more likely to be argumentative as they grow up. In such a young age, this can expose them on what is really happening in our world. This can teach them that what they are seeing in the television is real and how things should be done. These effects can result to children being less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, more fearful of the world around them and most likely to behave in an aggressive manner towards other children, as well as perform violent acts towards themselves. According to Brown (1984), "Children do imitate the behavior of models such as those portrayed in television, movies, etc. they do so because the ideas that are shown to them on television are more attractive to the viewer than those the viewer can think up himself." This influences us to believe all the fictional characters we watch seem to be doing a good behavior even though in the end, we know it's not. A classification board was created because of this overgrowing negative effects on its viewers. It's obligation is to safeguard the values and assist adults, parents, the viewers in general to decide what to watch or what to allow youngsters to watch. The board aims to be a vehicle for quality entertainment for young children and for adults to be more educated. It aims to build a culture that promotes human dignity. As a teenager, we always expect things to happen in a certain way, and when it doesn't happen the way we want it to be the world becomes bland and we result to violence. We create the violence our mind craves. We become rebellious when things do not go the way we want it to be. We are the cause of violence. Now, television violence is a major problem in our society. We have a choice to find a solution on this or to ignore it completely.
Television violence does have an effect on teenagers in this generation with the way they think and act. Especially, since our generation is called the "I Generation" we are more expose to violence because technology plays an important role in our life. But, it can be possible for children to not be rebellious, argumentative and violent as they grow up. A parent should educate their kids at a young age and tell them that not all things we see on the television are all correct. The influence of television is a big factor on the psychological development of boys and girls. It is important that parents and guardians should provide guidance on age appropriate shows and should limit the number of hours teens spend time in watching. As a result, due to excessive and prolonged watching the world shown on television now becomes a reality. To avoid all this, parents should always talk to their kids and should know what kind of shows they are watching. Teenagers should know how to self regulate. They should talk to the parents if they have any questions on the characters, scenes, topics,etc on the shows they are watching. Television has a positive and negative effects. There are good shows and bad shows. There are real and make believe in what we are watching. We should know the difference!
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