Violence in the media is everywhere. It’s on the T.V, it’s on the internet, it’s the videogames, and it’s even in the magazines. Here are 3 facts about children and violence:
1) Children, that are ages 8-18, spend more time ((44 1/2 hours per week, 6 1/2 hours daily)) in front of computer, T.V, and video game screens than any other activity in their whole lives other than sleeping ((Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005))
2) Children are affected at any age, but young children have the greatest chance to the effects of media violence ((Bushman, 2001)). Young children are more easily impressionable, cannot easily discern motives for violence and learn by imitating.
3) By the time a child is 18 years old, he or she will see on T.V 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders. And that’s an average time that a person watches T.V. ((Huston, et al, 1992)).
Obviously, children see way too much media violence and that affects them in a huge way. There are many different things that you can do to avoid media violence. For example, you can find different types of videogames to buy. Now-a-days, they have many different kinds of video games that can help with a child’s reading, writing, math, and many other things that will help them learn rather than them robbing a bank or shooting people. Second, you can block channels on the T.V or websites on the computer that you would not want your child to see, that way he or she would not have any access to them. And one last thing that you can to do prevent your child from seeing too much media violence is that you can get them into a sport, a club, or anything that will take away their time from sitting at home watching television or sitting on the computer. That will get them out of the house, and getting exercise and meeting new friends. That can teach your child teamwork, sportsmanship and other lessons that a video game won’t teach them. Getting a child away from media violence is really important. Too much media violence for your child could be that your child may become more anti-social, or you child being less sensitive to violence and those who are victims of violence and your child figuring that violence is an acceptable way to settle a conflict. A situation that I hear was one day I was watching Judge Judy, and it was a case with 2 typical High School girls. One of the girls, Kelly, who was 17 years old, was stabbed, by the other girl in court’s friend. The girl in court she was 13 at the time that her friend stabbed the 17 year old girl. Apparently, they were in an argument over a boy and one day the 13 year old girl stayed home from school sick and she had gotten a phone call from her friend (Shelly, the girl who stabbed Kelly) about getting into a fight (with Kelly) at the park and that she wanted her to come along and to meet her at the corner to walk to the park together. So of course she did. Now it took the judge quite a while to get the real story out of the 13 year old girl because she wouldn’t tell the truth but eventually, she got most of it out. So as she tells the story about what happened at the park about how she didn’t know that her friend had had a switch blade with her and that she had first seen it when they began to fight and she just stood back and watched. Well, Kelly had gotten stabbed 5 times once in each arm, her stomach, and her leg. When the 13 year old girl seen that one of her best friends had stabbed a girl she claimed to have left the scene. Leaving the girl to bleed to death. Violence is very serious and can affect a child in a huge way so it really important to protect your child from media violence.
1) Children, that are ages 8-18, spend more time ((44 1/2 hours per week, 6 1/2 hours daily)) in front of computer, T.V, and video game screens than any other activity in their whole lives other than sleeping ((Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005))
2) Children are affected at any age, but young children have the greatest chance to the effects of media violence ((Bushman, 2001)). Young children are more easily impressionable, cannot easily discern motives for violence and learn by imitating.
3) By the time a child is 18 years old, he or she will see on T.V 200,000 acts of violence including 40,000 murders. And that’s an average time that a person watches T.V. ((Huston, et al, 1992)).
Obviously, children see way too much media violence and that affects them in a huge way. There are many different things that you can do to avoid media violence. For example, you can find different types of videogames to buy. Now-a-days, they have many different kinds of video games that can help with a child’s reading, writing, math, and many other things that will help them learn rather than them robbing a bank or shooting people. Second, you can block channels on the T.V or websites on the computer that you would not want your child to see, that way he or she would not have any access to them. And one last thing that you can to do prevent your child from seeing too much media violence is that you can get them into a sport, a club, or anything that will take away their time from sitting at home watching television or sitting on the computer. That will get them out of the house, and getting exercise and meeting new friends. That can teach your child teamwork, sportsmanship and other lessons that a video game won’t teach them. Getting a child away from media violence is really important. Too much media violence for your child could be that your child may become more anti-social, or you child being less sensitive to violence and those who are victims of violence and your child figuring that violence is an acceptable way to settle a conflict. A situation that I hear was one day I was watching Judge Judy, and it was a case with 2 typical High School girls. One of the girls, Kelly, who was 17 years old, was stabbed, by the other girl in court’s friend. The girl in court she was 13 at the time that her friend stabbed the 17 year old girl. Apparently, they were in an argument over a boy and one day the 13 year old girl stayed home from school sick and she had gotten a phone call from her friend (Shelly, the girl who stabbed Kelly) about getting into a fight (with Kelly) at the park and that she wanted her to come along and to meet her at the corner to walk to the park together. So of course she did. Now it took the judge quite a while to get the real story out of the 13 year old girl because she wouldn’t tell the truth but eventually, she got most of it out. So as she tells the story about what happened at the park about how she didn’t know that her friend had had a switch blade with her and that she had first seen it when they began to fight and she just stood back and watched. Well, Kelly had gotten stabbed 5 times once in each arm, her stomach, and her leg. When the 13 year old girl seen that one of her best friends had stabbed a girl she claimed to have left the scene. Leaving the girl to bleed to death. Violence is very serious and can affect a child in a huge way so it really important to protect your child from media violence.
2 comments:
Parents need to take a bigger role in their kids lives and not let them watch so much violence on TV. This goes especially for younger kids as they are more likely to imitate the violence they see on tv, or in their video game. Kids watch way too much tv, and somebody should do something about it.
i agree with the point you made and this gave me a new perspective on the topic
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