Everyone has their responsibilities in this world, which even ensure the improvement of others’ lives. And the one example of it is the parent that plays the most important and rather huge role in the child’s life and bears a great responsibility for the child’s life. So, parents have a responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of their children, which includes controlling the content their children are exposed to on television. So, television programs may contain mature or violent themes and inappropriate language, which may negatively affect children’s development and behavior. The issue of supervision of children is wrong behavior and limits the boundaries of children’s freedom and self-expression, while others think otherwise and supported the view that television has an important influence on a child’s human values and basic behavioral characteristics, and controlling what a child should watch can prevent a child from forming incorrectly․
The first reason which compels me to favor this idea is that children are highly impressionable and can easily be influenced by what they see on TV. In the other words all people are using phones and television is starting to lose its significance among people. To attract new attention, strange cartoons, movies, or TV programs are created that contain great violence, racism, and various strange things that, like gymnastics, can affect the mental state of children. Thus, not monitoring what the child watches on TV can lead to the formation of the wrong mental state of the child, because the TV can show not-so-appropriate series that the child should not watch because he does not have that level of maturity. A vivid example of this is that studies have linked excessive TV watching to increased aggression, obesity, and poor academic performance.
Another argument to substantiate my view is that every child is unique, and it is a very individual need. To put it differently, by monitoring and controlling what their child is watching on TV, parents can tailor their decisions to their child’s individual needs and interests. The child brings this uniqueness into each new experience and takes an active role in the process of learning through their engagement in these experiences. Thus, the content is quite different on TV, various programs are intended for children from five to ten years old, and it is not so good for a four-year-old child to watch them. So, we can enter the child’s viewing programs stage by stage and develop the child individually.
In conclusion, it is my firm belief that parents should control what is watching their children to make it safe for them. Every child is unique, and it is a very individual need. Also, Children are highly impressionable and can easily be influenced by what they see on TV. So supervision not only is significant but also mandatory.
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