Especially This One: Excessive Television Viewing Can Make Children Less Intelligent
In many families with young children, it's almost inevitable that they will let their children watch television. Some parents even leave the television on all day long as their children are home. The reason is simple: young children are easily attracted by the variety and richness of television programs, allowing them to focus on them. This, in turn, reduces the burden of childcare for parents. Therefore, many parents are happy to use television as a way to keep their children entertained, freeing up time to rest or do other housework.
However, while watching television can indeed serve educational and relaxation purposes to some extent, it is ultimately a form of entertainment and should not become the main activity in a child's daily life.
Especially for children under 6 years old whose physical and mental development is still incomplete, excessive television viewing can not only affect their growth and development and physical health but also impact their brain development, making them increasingly less intelligent! Specifically, excessive television viewing for children usually leads to the following effects, which parents should be aware of.
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1. Affects children's physical health
2. Affects children's personality development
3. Affects children's social skills development
4. Affects children's creativity and imagination development
1. Impact on Children's Health
We often see children who can watch TV for hours on end, often snacking while watching. This lack of physical activity, combined with the unhealthy ingredients in snacks, can lead to health problems such as obesity, stunted growth, poor appetite, and digestive issues. Furthermore, prolonged screen time can cause nearsightedness.
Take my neighbor Grandma Wang's grandson, for example. Since he started living with her, he spent almost every morning watching TV. Initially, his parents didn't notice anything wrong, but after he started kindergarten, they discovered he was not only short and overweight, but also developed pseudomyopia at just over three years old. The couple finally took it seriously, especially the mother, who became very upset with Grandma Wang, leading to a long period of silence between them. Therefore, parents should definitely limit their children's screen time for the sake of their health.
2. Impact on Children's Personality Development
It's well known that a crucial way for infants and toddlers to understand the world and develop themselves is through imitation of others. Simultaneously, interaction with the outside world significantly influences their behavioral habits and character.
This means that when children spend long periods in front of electronic screens, they not only lose contact with the richer external world, thus limiting their physical and mental development and affecting the formation of their character, but also, negative thoughts and behaviors portrayed on television programs can become part of the behavior and personality of children with weak judgment, further impacting their character development.
3. Impact on Children's Social Skills Development
When a child is chronically engrossed in television programs, they naturally distance themselves from the real world, reducing opportunities for interaction with parents, peers, and strangers. Over time, the child becomes increasingly closed off, experiencing anxiety and insecurity in communicating with the outside world, thus weakening their social skills. In real life, countless cases exist of people gradually losing their social skills due to prolonged immersion in the virtual world, and even many adults experience this. Therefore, parents must pay close attention to their children's development.
4. Impact on Children's Creativity and Imagination Development
While watching television, a person's thinking is often limited, mostly in a passive state. Naturally, this restricts a child's creativity and imagination, leading to a lack of imaginative and creative abilities. This is extremely detrimental to a child's future studies or career.
Furthermore, frequent television viewing can impair a child's concentration, making it difficult for them to focus on tasks, especially seemingly tedious ones like reading or studying. Therefore, prolonged television viewing can make children less intelligent and significantly damage their intellectual abilities.
Given these numerous harmful effects of television viewing, parents must be mindful and try to reduce the frequency and duration of their children's television viewing. Therefore, parents can make efforts in three aspects: First, parents can set fixed time and frequency limits for their children's TV viewing, rather than letting them watch for as long as they want; second, parents should also pay attention to improving the quality of their time with their children, avoiding perfunctory interaction, especially by not watching TV or playing on their phones while spending time with them, setting a bad example; finally, parents should also cultivate their children's learning abilities and interests, making them more motivated to learn, rather than spending all day addicted to watching TV.
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