Disadvantages of television on children

Complete 5 pages APA formatted article: The Disadvantages of Television on Children. Sitting in front of the TV for a long time has a negative impact on the psychology of children. Watching television leads to promoting violence and aggressiveness, making children be enclosed and instilling laziness and the lack of responsibility. First, recently we have noticed the majority of TV programs broadcast have violent and aggressive scenes. This means when a child is watching four or six hours can get influenced and become violent. Even cartoons have violence in them. The article Children and Television violence by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2011, p. 1) claims that “Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior.”
The article also points out that the majority of programs on TV are violent, it is written “Unfortunately, much of today television programming is violent. Hundreds of studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may: Become immune or numb to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence they observe on television”. That is true, I have a nephew, whenever he watched a movie he started imitating the hero and started fighting with me.
There are also other examples of children’s imitation to violent and aggressive scenes that they see on TV. According to Dafnah (2007), “In Israel, a 7-year old boy who broke his spine was reported to have shouted-Look how Superman flies- before jumping out of a window” (p. 71).
Second, watching TV for a long time can also make the child be enclosed. It is very harmful to spend hours and hours in front of the TV, whereas there are other things and activities that can be done. For example, there are some people who are addicted to TV like the ones who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, they do not do anything just watching TV especially now since there are a lot of TV channels.