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Is it harmful for children to watch TV?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If your child is watching TV all the time, then, of course, it is harmful. But if you watch programs selectively, you need to understand that television expands the child's knowledge about the world around him. In addition, most of the cartoons carry elements of the educational process.
I do not mean cartoons that are low-grade or intended for older children. These are the cartoons created in the former Soviet Union, which are screen versions of the tales of Pushkin, Bazhov, etc. They are very mature in the educational plan. They are not violent, elements of "horror" and other things harmful to the child things. In contrast, Hollywood cartoons such as "Tom and Jerry," in which the characters are desperately fighting (and without any particular consequences for each other), the young children, who do not yet understand everything, probably do not need to watch. These cartoons are created not so much for children as for adults, and are more sitcoms of positions, which, by and large, is alien to our mentality.
If you remember, earlier there were wonderful programs - "Good night, kids" and "Visiting a fairy tale". So, some children even without knowing the clock at the right time asked parents to turn on the TV to watch them.
Very useful about nature, about animals. Naturally, in this case we are not talking about one-year-old or one-and-a-half-year-old babies, but about two-year-olds.
While the child is small and still does not know how to turn on the TV (although now some of them already know how to turn it on for a year and a half), you control the viewing of the programs themselves, and when the transfer is over, you can turn off the TV. True, in some families it works all day, even if no one is looking (just for the background). Then, educating the child's critical, selective attitude to television programs, try to wean yourself from the attitude to the TV as a background. Show the child by example, that watching TV is not a passive activity, but an active one; that you have included it not because you simply have nothing to do. Even better, if you can watch interesting programs along with the baby and explain to him those moments in the course of the viewing that he did not understand.
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