It’s hard to actually put the blame on one specific person or thing that causes people to become violent. If you own a television set, nine times out of ten it will be up and running. Through this television set, your family is exposed to so much violence in the media, movies, talk shows, and also cartoons. When you put the focus on Saturday morning cartoon programs, for example, you will be exposed to 20-25 violent acts per hour. On primetime television, you are exposed to three to five violent acts per hour. As a result, American society is now paying a high price in terms of real-life violence.

The behaviors of children and adults seem to be altered as a result of overexposure

The media is used in so many ways in today’s society. It is educational, entertaining and also violent. The way you perceive it and regulate it makes a difference in your whole family’s life.

Children are sometimes fascinated with television so much that that is all they do. From the moment they get home from school to the time they go to bed, the television is on and their little minds are slowly but surely being destroyed. One way in preventing this from happening is to set a time for when they can watch television and when they have to do chores, homework, or other constructive events. Make sure there is a time limit set on playing video games, which is where a good majority of the violence our children are exposed to comes from. In our family, we have a time after dinner where we sit down with no television on and discuss things concerning our kids and what issues or events are going in society. There are so many things that can take the place of the television set; you just have to be creative. But it is so easy to just grab the remote and flip on the set because it is sort of like a babysitter for the whole family.

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