Our topic was “Is Television good for young children” Obviously I say yes its good for young children.
Television helps to develop the young children’s mental health. Nowadays television is not only for entertainment but also for education. Television is the most powerful and easiest way to learn.
A major research study has found that children in low-income communities, some of whom speak English as a second language, significantly improve in several keys reading skills after regularly watching television shows like Between The Lions on PBS Kids. This type of shows helps them to enlarge their vocabulary power.
Television channels like Discovery, Discovery Kids, National Geography, History channel and channel Thirteen are proven as educational channels. Young children as well as adults learn from these channels. After watching these channels regularly they can learn to understand animals, human civilization, history, astronomy also about pollutions factor and the greenhouse effect. These all will help them to enlarge their knowledge and also shape their understanding of the world.
Television is also a major source of information of the world politics, about their country and also current events through their news shows.
Almost every television channel shows awareness advertisements or filler about anti-drug, anti smoking or about aids, which helps young children and their parents to know about the bad consequences of these things.
The Essay on The Effects Of Television For Children
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Television game shows and quiz shows like Jeopardy and Who wants to be a millionaires help to teach young children about general Knowledge which will help them to succeed latter on.
Countries like Canada, Great Britain and Australia have successfully incorporated television into schools educational curriculum.
Our opponent told about the televisions wrong effect to the society. They talked about that media encourage violence but a news release of American Academy of Pediatrics shows that heavy viewers of violent programming were less accepting of violence or showed decreased aggressive behavior after a media education intervention.
They also talked about sex, but sex is also a part of our every day life. Many parents feel embarrassed to talking about sex with their children. But they can learn about sex in the television.
They also talked about that some young children imitate what they watch on television. One of out opponent told about a Bangladesh boy who imitate as Superman and jumped out of his window but there is also some other young children who watch biography of great people and want to be like them and shaped our world.
Everything has some negative effect even when it concern about some life saving medicine. Some life saving medicine has some bad side effect. Then what should we do? We will stop taking that medicine which can save someone’s life? We will stop to produce them? The answer must be no.
So television is a powerful tool in educating our young children and that its positive side which outweigh its all-negative side.
