TELEVISION AND
CHILDREN

Studies have shown that televison may be too violent
for younger audience

Desensitization- seeing violence on TV is causing
emotional neutrality

Under some conditions televison may be harmful or beneficial for children

Kids rather watch televison than play outside with friends, do chores or read.

Children with higher IQ watch more televison when they are younger and kids with lower IQ tend to start watching more television later.

Topics from around the world are as important as the local news.

Spending a lot of time in front of TV screen instead of other activities (learning, communicating, reading, cooking)

Sometimes TV can help with learning social skills,
but also it might lead to loneliness.

Watching television may slow down the children's development.