Children are learning things by watching TV and movies. What are advantages and disadvantages of this method? Give reasons and examples.
Everybody loves watching TV, including children. Children spend more time to watch TV more than doing anything else. Some research shows children spend about 170hours to watch TV during a one week because watching TV is very exciting and full of colors and new programs. Watching TV is influent children in many different ways some of them are good and some of them not.
Children can gain a lot of information by watching TV programs or movies. For example, many of them cannot go to other countries like Japan, but they can see Japan in TV and absorb some information about their culture, foods and so on. TV is easy source of entertainment like cartoons, quiz show and so on.
But on the other side, there are many TV programs that have bad influent on children. Watching TV program for long hour has bad effect on the eyes. In future children have eyes problem. Moreover, children sitting in front of TV and most of the time they prefer to eat junk foods like sandwiches or popcorn. Besides, they spend more time to watching TV and they do not outdoor exercise. And also, sometimes they do not their homework carefully, because of watching TV.
To sum up, watching TV is not so good for children. They must reduce their time to watch TV and parents are the one who can help them to avoid it. Invite them to fill leisure time with more beneficial activities such as going to the library which provide good benefits for children.
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