Television - A Menace

A few generations prior our grandparents and parents spend their childhood playing skip, ring games and listening to folk stories. Through the development of technology television has become one of the most important and loved inventions. Television has a lead impact on our learning as well as emotional intelligence..if not directly, at least indirectly.

Before the invention of television, the type of relationship between a parent and a child was stronger and more connectable. But with the introduction of television, a barrier was created which caused a hindrance in this relation. Children no longer share their feelings with their parents as if they do so they’ll miss out their favorite television programme.  So what happens? A sense of frustration develops and the child becomes a slave of violence. The fact of the child’s identification with a negative destructive image adversely affects the development of his or her personality.

The models of life interaction given on television are highly exaggerated and garbled. Many years ago the examples of imitation for children were their parents. Now instead of playing leap and frog in open air, they pretend to be terminators and run around killing each other.

Television isn’t called the idiot box for nothing. It can cause a trauma to young consciousness and may produce an unhealthy and unbalanced conduct.

Albert Einstein said, “I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. Only when we speak to others exchange of ideas take place it was this exchange of ideas that allowed the Babylonians to construct remarkable structures in History.

Social and emotional skills fail to develop among teenagers whose social interaction has drastically decreased. They lose out their ability to think and react positively or create something new.

Doesn’t the fact that through repeated viewing and listening children begin to recite ABCs from their memory reinforce that through repeated exposure and imitation, children learn. So learning defectiveness is no exception.

Jerome Singer the famous psychologist once said, “If you came and saw a strange man teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kind of products, you’d kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don’t think twice about it.”

Television is a visual medium. But you don’t have to study hypnosis to understand how the eye can get exploited to undermine focus, good judgment and alertness. No wonder the attention span of children is low these days.

It is well said that there is nothing so useless than doing something which shouldn’t be done at all.