Breaking or getting rid of your televisions

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Re: Breaking or getting rid of your televisions

@Dushwari

who will without a doubt, break or for good, get rid of their televisions because of the negative influences of media and a waste of time when non stop news analysis and series of futile, tasteless and unrealistic in fact bad programs are being screened?

this brute method is necessary because the magnitude and the extent of this ill has got so worse that children today refuse to play or be interactive with care givers and they are already into programming that borderlines on adult ways of behaving.
for instance, nickelodeon’s and false entertainment such as idol shows for children to badly loose self-esteem or doubt their capabilities that may not be ‘IN’ merely because the ‘IN’ things are dictated by other un-becoming negative social pressures.

share your thoughts on this if you like.

best,
Dushwari

Nice thread Dushwari.
It took me a year to get rid of TV completely and at that time my older son was around 18 months.
I know its not easy for everyone to just throw their TV out but there are things they can do to avoid the bad effects on their families.

• There is a possible involvement of early exposure to TV in attention deficit therefore American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under the age of two shouldn’t watch TV at all.

• But there is also evidence that good educational programmes can create a talking point between parent and child, and stimulate babies and toddlers to activity by copying the actions they see on TV.

• Watching TV can also help toddlers in speaking only if parents watch with them and talk to them about the programmes.

• In the first few years, genuine interactive first hand experiences are much important than technological toys.

• Remember that children learn by doing, not watching.

• TV should be kept in a living room and not in bed rooms, survey results in the US and UK range from 30 percent of four-years-old and under up to 80 per cent of over-fives, and the figure appears to be going up year on year-with computers and other equipments not far behind.

• American researchers suspect that bright lights on television sets and computers can reset the circadian clock, changing the sleep-wake cycly.

• Italian scientists have also found that these lights block the secretion of the sleep hormone, melatonin, which usually begins as it gets dark outside.

• From the University of Coloumbia in USA, there’s evidence that too much television watching has a knock-on effect on sleep problems later in life. They found that late-night TV leaves children in a state of ’ hightened alertness ’ at a time when their minds should be winding down, preventing them from developing natural sleep patterns which would otherwise become ingrained, so they’re more likely to have sleep problems throughout their lives.

Taken from Sue Palmer’s Toxic Childhood

I’ll try to type more about a few points including exposure to violence, sex and consumerism through TV, inshaAllah.

@Light_Bearer

I totally agree to you that tv is having bad influence on children but on the other hand its a kind of necessity as well. There are so many educational programs which children can watch and learn.

In my opinion children always try to imitate their parents. So I believe that parents have to change their habbits in order to change their children.

Its not hard to discipline children if you do it from the beginning. My girls are allowed to watch max 1 hour in a day. But we have filled up the rest of their day with books and experiment kits. I spent a lot time with them explaining the scientific concepts. They are in bed by 18:30 and asleep by 19:00. Does this hinder with our plans; absolutely! but this is the price you have to pay to do thing which you think are right.

So the idea is to change your habits first. Lead by example.

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Light Bearer.

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