The dangers of television for children

  1, affect physical health Baby addicted to television, computers, cell phones will damage future development, bringing long-term physical hazards, infants and toddlers under the age of 3 is an important period of its brain and vision development, watching television will not only affect the brain vision, but also because of reduced activity and reduce body coordination and sensitivity, some children like to watch television while eating snacks, over time, prone to obesity symptoms.  2, hinder language communication Watching television is a one-way communication, and language learning needs to be achieved through communication. Long-term TV watching will make the child only interested in television programs, not much interest in other things, slowly unwilling to go out to make friends, become withdrawn, or even autistic. In the long run. It will hinder the child’s social skills because of the lack of interactive experiences between people.  3, lack of phenomenal ability Children watch television while reducing the time to look at pictures, look at picture books, read books, and play games. However, these activities are important for the development of children’s creativity and imagination. The television refracts the images created by adults to the baby, and in the long run, the child develops the ability to rely on external forces to help them create images, seriously weakening his process of growing into a healthy adult.  4, thinking ability is limited Children need a period of quiet time every day to digest the day’s events. Children who watch TV for long periods of time not only do not have the opportunity to digest life experiences, but they lose their curiosity and exploration of the world around them and give up thinking and looking deeper into the nature of things because of the clearer, more visual, vivid and image-based presentation of information on TV. When they do things, they often do not pay attention, do not love to think, do not pursue quality, which seriously affects the development of cognitive ability, thinking ability and creative ability.  5, affect the parent-child relationship Children are addicted to TV, passively receiving information coming from TV programs, and parents leave their children to the TV, finally having their own time. What seems to be a one-two punch greatly affects the parent-child relationship. A strange phenomenon occurs in many families: parents and children each hold a different TV and watch their favorite programs without communication. This practice, in addition to condoning children to watch TV, will only make the parent-child relationship appear the gap.