Too Much Television?

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Regular television viewers exercise less, often snack more, and so forth, but what is particularly disturbing is the effect such chronic television watching is having on the reading habits of our nation's children. The paper looks at the reasons why children of today are reading less, starting from the fact that they are simply mimicking their parents lack of reading habits and leading to the fact that television reduces a child's speaking (and thus reading) abilities due to their lack of personal contact. The paper examines what parents can do to influence and change their children's viewing habits and how they can direct them to enjoy the world of literature.

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"Thus, excessive television viewing adversely affects children's reading and learning abilities regardless of socio-economic background, or prior study habits and academic achievements. Television acts like a mind-numbing drug depriving children of their imagination and their ability to engage in complex reasoning. It accustoms them to expect everything to be presented to them polished up and fully formed. Children who watch too much TV neglect many other activities in favor of watching television. They read less and interact less with those around them, in particular their parents or other adults. Television robs children of the power to discover their world for themselves, and instead feeds them an easily-digested pabulum, that all too many young people mistake for the reality of their existence. Television can be a help, and it can serve the purpose of providing innocent entertainment, but parents and teachers must make sure that children fully understand how to read."

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