Children and TV Children and adolesence's spend almost 22-28 hours per week watching television. This is a sad fact because this is the largest amount of hours spent on any activity in your child's life, aside from sleeping. Television has a large influence on children's attitudes, ideas, and behaviours. Teens witness 10,000 murders, rapes and aggravated assaults per year on TV, and four out of five Americans believe that violence on television directly contributes to the way children view violence. When children watch TV, they see other …showed first 85 words of 945 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 945 total…guns. Children must be guided into doing the right thing by their parents instead of watching the violence shown on TV because it shows how it is okay to use force to solve their problems. TV also gives the impression to children that education is not needed in order to succeed in life, and that stereotypes are also shown to be considered that there is no harm in teasing others that are different from themselves and different from what is the accepted normality of society.
