A few weeks ago, I brought an article in and the title was "TV will never spoil my children". As I read the article, I realized that it has been argued whether watching TV is good for children or not in Australia.
In my opinion, TV is not always bad for children because they can get a lot of knowledge through TV and the knowledge might benefit them in their life. I have learned about language acquisiton in another class. Watching TV is never a good way to acquire language for little children because they have to communicate with people who speak the language better than them to acquire language fully, but they can still learn a lot of ways to use the language through watching TV.
On the other hand, I also think watching TV is sometimes bad for children. That is because children cannot get how to communicate with other people through watching TV. Although they can learn language through watching some academic programs, they will never know how to interact with people. Also, when they are watching TV, they don't speak with their family and concentrate on watching the screen of TV. It would be a bad point.
So I actually don't know watching TV is better for them or bad for them because there are some good points and bad points. At least, what I can say is that spending most of the time in a day watching TV is not good for children. I think this issue will be argured for a long time in the world.
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I agree that watching TV *for long periods at a time* is a bad idea for young children. However, I think it can be used in moderation. If you use the TV intelligently it can be useful: there are many decent educational programmes for children. Still, when it comes to obtaining information, I am firmly in favour of a good old-fashioned book or newspaper.
ReplyDeleteGood blog entry, Maiko!