Television

Television is something almost every household has these days. It is not something that is necessary and people can become unhealthy from sitting around for hours. People should watch not so much television.

Television is an unhealthy obsession that is making many children depressed, obese, racist and sexist. Television does not only affect health and emotion, it affects children's school performance. Young children are very easily influenced by television characters, and many of these characters do things that would be very dangerous for a child to do.

Fifty-nine percent of children under the age of two watch about one and a half hours of television a day. Studies show that a typical house with children has at least three televisions in it. Young children are even exposed to television in places besides their home; seventy percent of child day care services show television to the children on a typical day.

Nine hundred hours are spent in school in a typical year, but in a typical year one thousand and twenty three hours of television are spent watching television. Most of the things seen on television are very violent; by the age of eighteen a child will have seen two hundred thousand violent acts on television. Seeing violent things can make a child think that the world is scary and evil and it can also lead to violence. Studies show that children that watch five or more hours of television a day are far more likely to smoke.

Computers, although just as unhealthy, have been shown to raise test scores, but children with a television and no computer have much more of a chance of getting bad grades. Televisions are a complete waste of time and instead of watching them people could be doing productive things like: homework, bills, cleaning or exercising.

Many families have televisions nowadays. It is unnecessary and unhealthy. People should not watch television so much.