and most of them who watch the violent shows, are most likely to hit out at their playmates and argue.I. Young children do not process information in the same way as adults do. For example, children between the ages of 6 and 10 may believe that most of what they see on television is true to life. Since they watch a lot of television, this makes them mostly weak to the negative effects of television.But television is not always a negative influence to young viewers, there is a strong evidence that children's shows that were developed to teach educational and social skills which can help children learn well. In fact, research suggests that the positive effects of educational children's shows probably be more important than the negative effects of publicity to television’s violence. "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Other- wise it is merely lights and wires in a box." (Chen, p.33) Some programs combine entertainment and education to help children learn to identify characters, shapes and colors, sequence numbers and letters, practice beginning phonics skills, learn the vocabulary and sounds of foreign languages, and a lot more. Unfortunately, a great deal of children's programming does not teach children what most parents and teachers want them to learn, that is why these programs are mostly designed for young viewers like children, such as cartoons, different types of shows which are the most violent of all programming.The fact that television’s programs have many messages that are constructed in teaching children the difference between television’s fantasy and reality. The problem is whether or not children understand that most of television is and what is the real message of what they are watching on television or other types of media in general. In other words, allowing children to keep ...
