The Debilitating Effects of Tv on Children

Subject The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children Topic u02d2 The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children Author Dolores Staggs pick up October 18, 2012 115 AM J. Grohol (2009, September 9) The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children The principal(prenominal) arguments that the author is making arTV fire be very detrimental to the mental development of children and teen get onrs. And that it should only be allowed in moderation. Not whenever they want and as much as they want. The main purpose of this article is To show that Americans repute way too much TV and are raising their children in the same manner.Oblivious to its negative do on their childs development. The evidence or facts the author uses in this article to livelihood their arguments are Researchers at Columbias College of Physicians and Surgeons concluded in 2007, for example, that 14-year-olds who watched one or to a greater extent hours of television daily were at elevated risk for poor formulation completion, negative attitudes toward school, poor grades, and long-term academic failure. Those who watched three or more(prenominal) hours a day were at even greater risk for consequent attention and learning difficulties, and were the least in all likelihood to go to college.The main conclusions/inferences in this article are Kids who watch TV are more likely to smoke, to be overweight, to suffer from sleep difficulties, and have other health risk. And are less likely to be successful. No child under age two should watch television at all, the Academy of American pediatric medicine advised in 1998. The main assumptions underlying the authors opinion are Most parents tend to use TV as a babysitter and do not monitor or care what their kids watch regardless of the future consequences. References Grohol, J. (2009). The Debilitating Effects of TV on Children.