Watching television is a waste of time When students are watching television excessively, they are less likely to be spending time doing homework or reading, participating in after school activities, or being engaged in other intellectually stimulating activities in which they are active participants. Children, if not guided and monitored properly, may experience some adverse effects of watching television. For example, they may spend too much time watching television and fail to keep up with their academic work. ... Each year children read less and less and watch television increasingly...

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Some people watch television because they want to be updated about what is happening in the world. ... Watching TV is nearly equal to watching violence. Based from the Television Violence Monitoring Project, 96% of TV shows contain violence which can also mean that out of 20 times of watching TV, there is only 1% chance of watching a show that has no violence in it. ... In the world today, it can be said that watching TV is also like watching violence. Violence already cannot be prevented on television programs that is why watching television is bad for children because it causes aggressivenes...

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Watching television too much can show many actions from children. ... Parents and children can make watching television an activity (44). ... Attention span can be way shorter for children who watch television so much. ... While they are still young, set guidelines on how much television can be watched on television. ... Not watching too much television may also lead to a healthy lifestyle. ...

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Picture this: You are eagerly watching the season finalé your favourite television show. ... Television advertising is not the sort of thing you watch television for. You watch television for insightful, entertaining television programs, not for nerve-straining irritating ads. ... To conclude, television advertising is a blemish on the entertaining nature of television in general. Nothing can put a damper on a hilarious and informative episode of Blues Clues' like an ad telling all the ten year olds watching that they should be more open about their erectile dysf...

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In the mid 1940's, America was introduced to the home television. ... People began to rely on television for their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... Research by the American Press Institute reveals that people with Internet access are just as likely as anyone else to watch the news on television or tune into news radio on their w...

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Such harm may include people imitating aggressive acts that they have learned by watching television, deficiency in social skills, and finally poor eating habits but watching television can also be soothing, restful, entertaining and educational. ... Watching television is a passive activity that requires little or no physical movement at all. ... This is probably why my parents never let me watch too much television. ... Watching television can be soothing and restful after an eight-hour day of pressure, challenges, or concentration. ... Almost every evening my family and me gather togeth...

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Television plays a crucial role. In the average American household, the TV is on for seven hours and 40 minutes each day, and 40% of Americans report always or often watching television while eating dinner. ... Families who watch little or no television, on the other hand, often find that they have more time to spend with one another in more engaging and interactive activities. ... Excessive television watching harms reading skills both by displacing them from our daily lives and, according to some experts, by affecting the physical structure of the brain. ... This debate may not end up unless...

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Television is first and foremost an educational medium. ... When was the last time you have watched TV? ... Children often behave differently after they've been watching violent programs on TV. In one study done at Pennsylvania State University, about 100 preschool children were observed both before and after watching television; some watched cartoons that had a lot of aggressive and violent acts in them, and others watched shows that didn't have any kind of violence. ... Do you really think the news on today's television is always telling us the true things? ...

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As a young child I recall watching several programs that were educational and appealed to my youthfulness. As a pre-teen I remember watching such shows as "Saved by the Bell," "Home Improvement," and "The Simpsons." ... With the invention of television also came an explosion of pop-culture. ... It is said that the average person spends one-third of their life enveloped in watching TV. ... The average child entering first grade has spent nearly 5,000 hours watching television, and that same child by age eighteen will have spent more time watching television than attending school. ...

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On average, young children watch about 100,000 acts of violence before they are through with their schools. ... It is established that children tend to copy what they watch on television. Various studies have concluded that the children watching violence on television have a greater probability of exhibiting aggressive behavior towards others in real life. ... Children are unable to realize what they watch on Television is not real, is just a story which should not be copied in real life. ... If the public records its protest through boycotting those companies and products / services whi...

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Some hold the opinion that the "almighty" television is the most ingenious invention of the century (aside from the computer of course); however these individuals are usually avid TV watchers themselves. ... Although television has its advantages, it is generally a negative influence in the lives of Canadians. ... Most people, while watching TV consume exuberant amounts of junk food. ... Children can also watch TV and have their opinion given to them by corporations. ... Canadian audiences are ill affected by the great sickness of society, Television. ...

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Academic achievement falling in children's work of children that watch ten or more hours of television per week, and studies prove that children that watch excessive television achieve lower on written expression, reading and mathematic achievement tests. The number of hours spent watching television has increased sharply and now the average American child spends more time watching television that they do at school. The average youth spends an average of nine hundred hours at school and fifteen hundred hours watching television in an average year. Children need to stop watching so much te...

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I think there are 15% of educational television programs that show on public television. ... Some people think watching a news channel is boring. ... One should always watch television news to know about where the tornadoes are located. ... Many people watch movies because they want their minds to be thrilled. ... I believe that movies are an exciting to watch and also I like to watch movies that are based upon true stories. ...

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My family spends countless hours watching television. Watching television as they wake up, as they eat and before they go to bed. ... Many attribute this problem to the violence children watch on television. ... As a child, I was left to be watched by the television. ... The siblings in the family have gotten to the point were they would rather watch television rather than be with the family. ...

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First of all, watching television can be relaxing. ... One family can sit around watching television in the living room on Sunday and public holidays or also at night time. ... Television also is very relaxing because we can watch traveling programs or sports on live with thousands of benefits. ... Instead, we can watch while leaning on the soft sofa, or do ironing or daily works, or even doing work up while watching television. ... So, it is a very useful and valuable inventory that people will surely earn while or after watching television. ...

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Television is used by a number of people as a form of education because shows like jeopardy are very exciting and interesting to watch without putting pressure on ones" mind. There are a number of educational programming on television that people who do not enjoy reading like to watch and unlike learning at school, learning from television is uncomplicated and can be done in ones" own time without pressure. Programs watched that provide information are very helpful because some of the information learned from television cannot be easily found in books and if found are difficult to understand. ...

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Television is an important factor in most children's lives. The average school-age child in the United States spends about five hours each day watching T.V. ... There are some ways to affect the influence of television on children. ... School-Age Children: Encourage planned watching or consider keeping a record of T.V. watching. ... Watch television with your children. ...

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Imagine if you were never again allowed to watch what you wanted on television. ... Some people find very different things entertaining on television, one person might enjoy watching war movies or bloody action movies, while another person likes watching romantic movies. ... If censorship continues on television, soon, people will have no choice what to watch on television. ... People would be having their privacy rights infringed upon, no one wants someone telling them what to watch, they should have the choice to watch what they or their children watch in their own time. ... If censorship on...

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Children begin watching television at a vary early age, sometimes as early as six months, and are eager viewers by the time that they are two or three years old. ... I have grown up watching TV for as long as I can remember, like almost any one of us in this room. ... If children watch violence when there young there more likey to commit crimes when there adults. 6. ... The only cost is your time to watch what the program rating is before the program starts. ... There are no other soulutions except monitoring everything your child is watching and that is not possible....

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Thus, we can say that the children who watch television can grow more quickly intellectually than those who cannot get access to television. ... The children who watch more television are found to be very subdued and unenthusiastic. ... Recent studies have also unveiled other problems associated with watching more television. ... Due to this, the children who are much into watching television are found to slowly drift apart from the society. Besides some scientists also claim that those parents who encourage their children to watch more television in order to help them get knowledge are totall...

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The amount of time people could be spending; doing so many other things is being wasted watching television. ... There are many other ways people can occupy their time besides watching television. ... Most of them probably had the time to watch a couple hours of television the night before. ... They think it is so much easier to sit in a reclining chair and watch their favorite television shows. ... When we grow up watching television the sex and violence does seem to effect our minds. ...

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Television has played a major role in most family households. ... On the other hand, others despise of their children watching television. ... It is said that children spend between six and seven hours watching television each day. ... Children who tend to watch more of these violent television shows tend to be more aggressive and harmful to others. ... In conclusion, there are many factors to why children should or shouldn"t watch television. ...

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What has television done to my generation? ... The average American household has 1.1 televisions. ... When people watch television, they are bombarded with commercials, many being repeated every commercial break. ... I am able to write this paper because I grew up with a television, but I was never allowed to watch anything but Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune until I was 16 (I"m not bullshittin" you). ... My generation believes that they are happy because they have finally achieved what they have seen on television and they think that if people love those on television, and they act just...

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It doesn't matter what channel you watch, there is invariably something violent. Many studies have been conducted by countless scientists, these studies illustrate that children exposed to an average amount of daily television (3-4 hours) become immune to the violent acts they are watching. ... Other studies have proven that children who watch violent programs become aggressive and withdrawn, while children who watch socially stimulating shows like Mr. ... One way is to pay attention to what the child is watching, and turn off the television when a violent program comes on accompanied w...

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Ever since my younger days, I've always been an avid television watcher. ... Years ago I constantly denied any effects that television has had on me. ... When I was younger, my television preferences were mainly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Ghostbusters. ... My next main preference in television was sports. Any sport that was on I would watch. ...

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