I am an international student at this University; I am from the Middle-East a little bit more conservative part of the world were the government as well as parents still take a very active as well as a conservative approach towards bringing up their children. I bring this topic up since it was not till I came to the United States that I really noticed the level of violence on TV. Shows like Power Rangers, Beast Wars that are oriented towards kids, and even The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) which part of the show airs on times when most elementary school kids are awake. These shows definitely have adverse effects on today’s kids.

It seems that these days with the demanding lifestyles, which are causing both parents to work extra hours every week not to provide, but to provide more and better for their families. This is causing children to spend more time home alone, which usually means more time in front of the

There are several studies that have been done on children to evaluate the effect of TV programming on their behavior one of these experiments was done at the Minneapolis day-care center. “When a class of two- to five-year-olds watched public television's big-hearted purple dinosaur, "Barney," they sang along, marched along, held one another's hands, and laughed together. The next day, the same class watched the aggressive teenage avengers, "Power Rangers." Within minutes, they were karate-chopping and high-kicking the air - and one another.” (UNITED STATES)

“ Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most par the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?” ~ Plato

It is sad to say that such results where obtained by several researchers. In the early seventies researchers from the University of British Columbia did some experiments to determine the level of aggression in first and second grade students form two different Canadian towns. One of the towns had no access to television due to its location on a mountain. The researchers observed that after the town was able to receive television broadcasting, the fighting, biting and shoving levels among these

television set. Even though parents try to control their children’s education by choosing the right schools and r

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