Media Influence

As technology advances and media choices increase, children are developing unconstructive social, learning, and health habits that many parents are greatly unaware of. Parents don’t realize that the amount of time children spend consuming media is second most to anything else children do, besides sleep (Dunnewind, A1). Children today spend more than four hours a day either watching television, messing around on the computer, or playing video games (Vanderkam, A1). It is estimated that …

…socialize with friends, and spend time with their family (Vanderkam, A1). Children need to decrease their amount of media consumption and learn to participate in other activities, or else they won’t properly develop socially, physically, and mentally throughout their lives. It is quite obvious that the media has numerous negative effects on children’s social, learning, and health habits, and parents aren’t giving enough concern to try and end this everlasting, unproductive issue.