What are the advantages and disadvantages for children of Television?

Nowadays, watching television has been adopted as a tradition in our western society and especially for our children, who has been subjected with more kids programmes every day. Therefore, this can be fun for them but also it can affect seriously the development of them in terms of personal health and social behaviour. In this essay, I will discuss the pros and cons of the effects of television in the kids and try to draw some conclusions.

Let’s start by looking the advantages of these effects. First, the kids are able to be educated by many programmes that are discussing issues as the name of colours, classification of relatives and so on. Another up is the kids can be kept when there are a danger outside. For example, whether it is raining or is getting cold, these ones can have a leisure time watching their favourite programmes.

Turning to the other side of the argument, the cons of this activity is the lack of physical activity. One good example is the rise of obesity among the children of United States, which can be associated with the highly jump of the rating kids’ programmes.

Another major drawback is the loss of empathy and socialization among the children. For instance, when the children are watching T.V. generally they do this alone, in contrast of making friends in the streets or playing in groups.

In overall, the television is one of the most amazing technologies in our days. Nevertheless, we have to be responsible in how to use it with the minors, who are very prone to adapt their behaviour in relation to their environment. In my view, I would let them watch T.V. programmes, but first they would have to play a while in groups outside with the aim to meet the real world.