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The Negative Effects of

Watching TV too much for
Children
By
Nur Amalina M/K2212058
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98% of American homes have at least 1
TV
It is common for parents and caregivers
to use TV as a substitute babysitter.
In fact, 30% of children under the age of
3 have a television in their bedroom,
and the percentage rises with age.



The Fact about TV and Kids
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Children 3-16 watch 3-4 hours of
TV per day
When a television is in a child's
bedroom, his television viewing
increases dramatically. Some
studies show an increasing, from
21 hours to 30 hours of TV a
week.
The Statistitic of childrens TV-viewing
Figure 16.1. Average number of hours per day that American children and adolescents spend watching television.
FROM LIEBERT & SPRAFKIN, 1988.
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The Bad Impacts of Watching TV too Much
1. Watching television makes kids waste the time that could be used in more beneficial
activities.
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The children will not doing anything, just stay in front of television

Watching television affect performance in school

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The Bad Impacts of Watching TV too Much
2. Watching television can gives negative impact on the childrens minds.
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Kids get lots of information about
sexuality, violence, alcohol,
drug use from television


They are taught by TV that violence
is the way to resolve conflict

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The Bad Impacts of Watching TV too Much
Watching television can gives negative impact the childrens minds.
By the end of elementary school, children have seen 8,000
murders and over 100,000 acts of violence on TV
The number of sex scenes on TV has nearly doubled since
1998, with 70% of the top 20 most-watched shows by teens
including sexual content. Fifteen percent of scenes with sexual
intercourse depict characters that have just met having sex. Of
the shows with sexual content, an average of five scenes per
hour involves sex.

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3. Watching television affects on childs health

Children who watch more TV are more likely to be overweight
It promotes poor eating habits. For example snacking during TV and eat
what is advertised
Watch TV too closes of bedtime, their minds may remain stimulated just
enough to keep them awake and miss out on precious hours of sleep.

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FACTS
Many TV ads encourage unhealthy eating habits. Two-thirds of the
20,000 TV ads an average child sees each year are for food and
most are for high-sugar foods. After-school TV ads target children
with ads for unhealthy foods and beverages, like fast food and
sugary drinks.
University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues who
investigated whether diet, physical activity, sedentary behavior or
television viewing predicted Body Mass Index (BMI) among 3- to 7-
year-old children, found that physical activity and TV viewing are
most associated with overweight risk.
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