Media Influence

As technology advances and media choices increase, children develop 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 the 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, fiddling on the computer, or playing video games (Vanderkam, A1). It is estimated that by …

…number one concern since it is the most popular activitiy children participate in next to sleep (Dunnewind, A1). About thirty-five percent of children between the ages of five and seven believe that television commercials always tell the truth (Liebert and Sprafklin, 170). Violence on television also has a critical effect on children’s behavior. More than one thousand studies have proven that exposure to great amounts of television violence increases aggressive behavior in children and teenagers (???).