Now TV has become a fashion for children. Not only children but also their parents are addicted to the TV or more elaborately stated and glued to TV. In America TVs are removed from the bedroom to the drawing room for preventing children seeing TV for unlimited hours. A research on children’s TV watching was conducted by Columbia University. It has found how many minutes children of different ages devote to TV.  The diagram is shown below.

This graph is on American children where TV is going to be obsolete. In India a child of 6 years see TV at least one hour for day. There are children above 6 years of age who spend more than two hours on TV. Psychologists are of the opinion that one and half hour watching TV inhibit children’s thinking and reasoning process. Of course now there are parents who have not brought TV to their houses only to avoid children’s TV addiction. So let us list the bad effects of TV.

1. It kills appetite and disturbs sleep. It also affects digestive system.

2. Child is close to nature and hence is playful like other young animals. Too much TV watching child avoids playing outside game the lack of which makes him dull and lazy. This is more with girls than boys.

3. TV also hinders school lesson. Children fail to cope with class progress, unless the child is not of high intelligence.

4. TV also hinders social relationship and social development of children, which is very important for adulthood. They spend  more time on TV and find rarely time to mix with society.

5. TV puts bad effects on nature and character. Children imitate film stars and learn violence, bullying and waywardness.

6. In TV serials mainly two types of characters are presented - villains and gentle men. Young children follow the ideas of villains.

7. Many times TV shows wrong and absurd concepts. Children watching it take it seriously as correct.

On the whole parents are advised to deprive children from seeing adult serials and serials having violence and horror scenes. Do not encourage to watch cartoon channels as the ugly pictures leave an odd impact on them.