Breaking The Television Watching Habit

respite The Television Watching HabitFor most of you, as it was for me, I grew up watching three, four and even five hours of video recording system a day. It was a part of my daily r break throughine and it wasnt balmy for me to break. I managed to do it when my family and I locomote to a small city in the west. After we moved in we found out that you had to buy cable if you wanted to curb television. So we attempted a little experiment. We decided that we were not handout to get cable and right tough it like the full one- condemnation(a) pioneers. This was partly because we couldnt afford it later on(prenominal) the great expense of buying a new house and out of the wishes of my wise mother. So the family tuned out and switched off. It was chapped for a while but then I began to notice close to changes taking repose in my family and myself. I started to tell apart that television increase violence and aggression in my siblings and I, detracted from the way our fami ly interacted and finally I detect its adverse effects on all of our train scores. I architectural plan to show that these adverse effects of television are reason copious to give your TV to the neighbor.Now your probley saying that peck are naturally dotty. Look at Gengis Kahn and Adolph Hitler . None of them grew up with television and they were still cleansing innocent people. From what I disregard tell if TV had been a circular they would pay been a whole administer worse.In the view as Televisions Effects, a disposal written report compiled by George A Comstock , It states on page twenty five, that children who had viewed boisterous programming exhibited more aggressive demeanor than children who had viewed a sports program. In the prove they were able to tell which children would exhibit this behavior this shows a correlation amongst ruddy programming and violent behavior.Even if a naturally violent nature is the root of the problem we also gather up to reco gnize that the television is making those naturally aggressive and violent children even more so. We need to gain ground that these people arrive at a hard beat distinguishing mingled with right and wrong. We need to help correct this problem by meat abstinence to television. In the book The Plug-In Drug by Marie Winn, a book about the ill effects of television on the different aspects of sympathetic race career, it states It is particularly hard for parents to buy the Idea that television instigates aggressive behavior when its function in the home is so different, television keeps children quiet and passive, cuts bulge on loud and boisterous tactics, prevents outbursts between brothers and sisters. The tragical fact of the result is, parents some eras wealthy person to work and are not able to legislate nebulous amounts of time with their children. We need to chuck up the sponge allowing our children to be unfastened to the violent distortion of reality that TV pro jects, Our children should be out playing sports or just romping around in the backyard. Activities that are proven to wear kids out and dont bombard them with all kinds of extremely violent stimuli. By destroying TV we gutter increase productive family time. Stop desensitizing our children to violence and begin to ret all(prenominal) our children total manners and pricy morals simply by our example. In a story by Ray Bradbury called The Veldt. We expect the extreme end of this TV addiction when the existence of the childrens parents is of less importance than continued access to the TV room.Parents you need to let TV be a tool kind of of a replacement. We must hold back up the reigns again raise our prospective generations the right way, by corking old human contact.Now youre credibly thinking to yourself, how am I supposed to live without television. Its the peacemaker in our home. When its on the children stay out of my hair and they stop fighting with apiece other. Anyw ay its the unaccompanied time that the family really gets together. It really helps our family get along.You enamor not only hand we replaced the parent with TV we have replaced the good old-fashioned family as well. I think the effects of television on the family and person are best stated in a quote by Urie Brofenbrenner Like the sorcerer of old the television set casts its invocation spell , freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary peril of the television projection screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces although there is danger there as in the behavior that it prevents the talks, the bouncings, the family festivities and arguments through which much of a childs learning takes place and trough which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people. We neglect our responsibilities as parents and families to build children and future generations with character and moral values. When the TV is on we outlet our children to the values of the world. We see TV as the fix all for the change surface problem. Instead of playing, nurturing and loving we use the TV as the escape hatch. It lets the adults, the rolemodels, have their time and gives the children the necessary attention that they need. While at the same time allowing the parents to keep some semblance of sanity. You see why it is so easy for us to justify TV as a necessity. The bad subject about this is that children spend very little time interacting with adults and their other family members. every last(predicate) they ever see are two-dimensional flashes of lights and sound, merely impressions of a human soul. So good is TV at tricking the mind that we dont even realize that children are lacking something they desperately need, a strong family.In the LDS perform families are a very important thing. The LDS church encourages families to tak e at least one night of the week and set it aside for just the family. This time is spent singing songs, playing games, and doing small acts of service. A lot of good television free family time results on this night and more needed skills like cooking and cleaning are taught to sons and daughters.We need to stop allow TV be our social outlet. It just isnt the same. We are so addicted that without it for even a short period of time we go stir crazy and have no idea how to entertain ourselves. We have forgotten how to enjoy ourselves and our own family members. We need to unplug and tune out. sympathise a book or even play a game of Monopoly with a younger sibling. We have lost the arts of interaction. We waste our lives away(p) trying to escape, not realizing what we have around us, always wanting the close Scooby Snack, exploding truck or funniest home video.The worst place that TV vanquish us upside the head is in the learning department. Its like letting Dirty Harry put a b ig 44 round trough your skull. Now your probley going to try and tell me about good educational programs like Bill Nye and Sesame Street. We cant forget the breakthrough channel. Yes, these are the rare jewels of television programming. We need to concentrate our viewing time in these areas.Television despite what programming may be on is an inefficient way to learn. TV is so easy to use and it is so easy to change to a totally different program if it becomes disinterest or boring. I personally have noticed that whenever I get the extraneous in my hand I have to switch channels constantly. I think if you asked me what I saw on TV I could only tell you selected parts of the last five minutes.In a essay conducted by Canadian researchers three towns were surveyed. One had no TV capabilities. The encourage city had only one channel. The third city had many channels. When instruction score were compared between the three town they found that the highest scores were from the city wit h no TV. The next highest from the city with one channel and tailing close behind the second city was the third in last place with many TV stations. Now you might be thinking that this study is not so great because they didnt take into account income and education of the people studied. The thing that make this study so intriguing is that the same throng was able to go back into the city that had no TV after it had television for about two years. They found that the scores in the start city had dropped down with the scores of the other two cities. A sad testimony to the ill effects of television.One thing we fail to realize is that little things count when it comes to TV and how it relates to school performance. Things like reduced quietude time cause by late television viewing. Loss of productive play and self-learning time and a reduction of time spent on school work and studying. TV is like a drug, it acts like a good emotional and mental laxative. It lets us forget the things that we dont want to deal with and allows us to take the back seat and partake of the action guilt free. wholly the while we let our school books rot and our lessons pile up until we have no way to make up for the lost time. This wasted time is hard to fathom. Millions of man-hours wasted on what, a useless story, a fewer loud explosions and a dead policeman. We should be spending this time on reading, writing, arithmetic, and maybe even some thing we could turn into a career. You dont see an awful lot of people getting paid to watch television.An interesting comparison was done of SAT test score onwards and after the introduction of television. They found that between the years of 1964 and 1981, The exact years when children who had been exposed to large doses of television during their language learning years came up to take the SAT challenge the researchers witnessed a steep decline from the years before television. I can see how this wasted time that was before used on study ing and hobbies was now channeled into six and seven hours of viewing a day. (Plug-In Drug) Could mean the difference between Harvard University and Southern Utah University.Television has proven to be one of the most effective drugs in human history. We can learn to live without it and we can learn to enjoy our families more. We must state ourselves from that great monster. We must do as my family did and eliminate the need for television. I can honestly say that my grades went up. I had more time to read. We started to do things together as brothers and sister. Now we just have long conversations with each other. If you would like to see the good changes it can make in your life and the numerous benefits that abstinence provides then join me. Throw you TVs in the street.