The Child and the TV

Just like in the lives of the children too, the law of attraction tells everyone that we bring into our lives that which we put our attention on. The secret to life may be for one to put his or her attention on what serves better and take the attention away from what does otherwise. Among everything, that garners one’s attention in life, the television has been one electronic we are yet to conclude either to be graded under vices or virtues based on its contributions to the lives of humanity. But for the sake of this article, we are going to merely examine the effects of the television or TV in the lives of the children and the best ways an adult are expected to tackle this in their lives and extensively in the lives of the younger generations. There are some basic questions we need to ask ourselves like ‘What do I really gain from watching the television?’ ‘Those things I gained watching the television, are they educative or spiritually, morally and even physically uplifting?’ ‘Are there programmes I watch in the sitting room and quickly reach for the TV remote whenever my kid is coming in?’ ‘How much time have I really dedicated to watching the TV with my little one(s)?’ before we can begin to judge or categorise, because we often create a habit of watching the television no matter what it is that we are watching. It is just like talking and quickly judging others, while we stand aloof with the suspicious saying that, ‘What I watch doesn’t affect me. I live ways beyond it!’

 We get daily and different feedbacks from the television, which subsequently encourage us in making decisions that eventually stifle our think-ability and by extension our creativity. We practically conform to the whims and caprices of the television marketers and producers. They made us exchange our reality without any obvious regret for their high-powered sensationalism and video effects, and this over the years has been what the adults fight against in the lives of the children.

The child and the TV is one bound, one connection, that may simply be difficult for any adult to break. And the best suggestible way is for the adult to influence it positively based on the level of knowledge and susceptibility of the child and the expanse of experience in the outcomes of the various television programmes as viewed by the adults. Children may love cartoon programmes on the television, but the question is ‘How educative and influencing are these cartoons?’ in the same light as watching all these numberless comedies, because there are highly nefarious and debasing kinds of cartoons, comedies and slap sticks on the televisions these days. Of course, we all submit to the idea of freedom for the child to watch and choose his or her own programme on the television, after all there are families that procure the television, basically, because of them. But it cease to be a reasonable length of freedom when a child chooses a certain questionable television programme that may in any way facilitate or encourage thoughts like, love-for-the-firearms, hatred, racism, incest, and any form of Oedipus or Electra complexes, just to mention a few.

A parent or any guiding adult must learn to understand the connection between the child and the TV to a very reasonable extent. Virtually most of what the child may fall in love with on the television are plain high-tech video effects and sensationalism, indulgence and dreams, and we wouldn’t want to build the future leaders on mere loads of surrealism that may not even be advisable in some quarters. Thus, by all standards a well-tamed present will only lead to an approachable future.

Not a 'window on the world'
But as we call you,
A box a tube
Terrarium of dreams and wonders.

Robert Pinsky (1940 - )

U.S. poet.

On the Jersey Rain, "To Television"

    

Thanks you.

Samuel Solomon O.

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