Should Families Have A Television In The House Or Not!

It is hard to avoid television if you're a child. People within the house are usually tuned in to TV – siblings also as parents. In some homes, the TV is perpetually “on” even without anyone watching. It is common for folks and caregivers to use TV as a substitute babysitter. But how does watching TV really affect children?
The bad news is, the bulk of experts think that a TV/video-driven culture has bad effects on kids – and should prevent kids from being smart. They cite the following:
TV provides no educational benefits for a toddler under age 2. Worse, it steals time for activities that really develop her brain, like interacting with people and playing. A child learns tons more efficiently from real interaction – with people and things, instead of things she sees on a video screen.
TV viewing takes away the time that your child must develop important skills like language, creativity, motor, and social skills. These skills are developed within the kids’ first two years (a critical time for brain development) through play, exploration, and conversation. Your kid’s language skills, for instance, don't improve by passively taking note of the TV. It is developed by interacting with people, when talking and listening is employed within the context of real world.
Another study that indicates that very young children used to miss out on brain development is seen. This suggests that youngsters who have TV within the bedroom watch half an hour more TV per day and are more likely to be overweight, have higher levels of self-reported depressive symptoms, teacher-reported emotional distress, victimization, physical aggression and poorer social skills by age 12 or 13. TV viewing kills your time from reading and improves your reading skills through practice. Kids watching cartoons and entertainment television during pre-school years have very poor pre-reading skills at the age of 5. Also, kids who watch entertainment TV also are less likely to read books and other medium. According to Speech and language expert Dr. Sally Ward, 20 years of research show that youngsters who are bombarded by background TV noise in their homes have trouble listening to voices when there's also background noise.

By: Saksham Gupta