Our generation has been raised in a technological advanced world and there has been definite controversy over many of these innovations that this new culture has brought. An innovation that has troubled the youth of America for many years is television. Although there is no certainty to eliminate this “plug-in drug,” there are many ways to control and monitor your television as a parent.
Children between two and eleven years of age watch an average of 25 hours of television a week.(Children’s Television) Which means that children spend more time watching television than in school. With that statistic it is no wonder why this is such a huge problem that this nation has to deal with.
There are many facts that show how children are effected by television. The most obvious is the effects that television has on the brain. “Television interferes with the development of intelligence, thinking skill and imagination.”(LimiTv) A huge element of......
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