A child is anyone in the developmental stage of childhood between infancy and adulthood. Nothing can be more wonderful than sitting at home and seeing people around the world is known as called television. The word television is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots which mean “far seeing”. It is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving motion & moving pictures and sound over a distance.
Television is treated as a medium through which children learn many things such as information, education, entertainment and consumerism. These above are influenced by the contents of TV(Television) transmission. During the formative years of life, there is a curiosity among the children to know and learn new things from different sources and TV contents play a significant role to meet their curiosity.
Television plays four roles in children’s lives. They are as below:-
Ø Time consuming activity: a relaxing reward after work is done.
Ø Social (non-social even): an opportunity to comfortable position with parents or to escape from quarrelsome children.
Ø Informative procession task: at medium that requires looking and listening simultaneously and remembering a chain events.
Ø Final role is that of an information: providing experience and source of knowledge.
Children enjoy different kinds of programmes such as puppet-shows, cartoons, live stories, photographs, Hindi and English poems, plays and educational items. It provides children to acquire knowledge, how to play, how to buy, love, faith and fight etc.
Parents are likely to perceive both positive and negative consequences of TV watching on their children. Let us first of all take up the positive impact of TV contents as perceived by the parents.
Children are now better equipped with knowledge regarding different places in India and other nations. They have come to know about different styles of life and have learned to develop greater tolerance towards people of other faiths. A majority of the parents of the upper and middle classes felt that their children learn many new things from TV contents and become more aware about realities of life. Things which they couldn’t understand and remember after reading books could now be easily comprehended through TV programmes like “Discovery of India” helped their children to known more about India. The epic stories “Ramayana” and “Mahabharatha” helped them to now more about our cultural ethos.
The parents of the lower class opined that their children used to loiter around the indulged into different mischiefs and quarrels .they were fedup with complaints against their children. Parents felt that with the introduction of TV sets in their homes, their children had started spending more time inside the house. Thus, their children were saved from bad company. Television as a cheapest mode of entertainment, not only for the children but also whole family. It is treated as a medium through which they & their children learn many new things and it was an important source of information and learning.
After the positive impacts of TV on children we have to discuss the negative impacts.
The parents perceived that TV watching by their children had adversely affected their studies. They hurriedly completed their home work and even did it while watching TV programmes. The lacked concentration from reading newspaper, magazines etc. Their children did not listen to them; they were more influenced by television programmes. Children after watching cable transmission had started copying the Western way of life particularly with regard to dress and had developed taste for western music and dance. The children were inculcating western mode of life and didn’t indicate any appreciation for Indian cultural ethos.
The demands for new things have put a constraint on the family budget which was felt more by the parents of the lower and middle classes. The children after being exposed to TV matured earlier than their age, which would have had consequences for their future life. Children had stopped a number of outdoor activities like play, interaction with their difficulties and felt that Television watching was a mere waste of time for them. Television watching had also adversely affected their eyesight. TV has assumed the status of an agent of socialization in the family for their children and they learnt many things, though most of them were bad.
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