Do you agree with the following statement? If child want to do well in school. parents should limit the hours of watching TV programs or movies.
How to make sure children to do well in school? It is always a spiny problem (spiny用的很好)for parents. From my view, the easiest way is to constrain or even forbid children to watch TV, since it can assure children to spend more time doing their homework and make their to focus on study.
The chief advantage of limiting TV hours of children is that they will spend more time finishing their homework and practicing what they learn at school, and therefore they can do better than those who spend less time in study. A widespread misunderstanding about study is that intelligence is the determinant factor of academic performance. However, it is not the intelligence, but diligence which hugely affects children’s test scores. This fact has been revealed by a group of American psychologists. According to them, children who perform best in class often spend three or four extra hours doing homework, whereas other children usually choose to watch TV during this time. As a result, if parents can reduce the time children spend in front of television and elongate the time they spend studying, children will do better at school.
Another reason to restrict the hours of watching TV is that children lack self-control and they are prone to turn their attentions from study to those interesting things casted on TV. Actually, it seems to be less contentious that television has some negative effects on the society, especially on children. Observers blame TV to plummeting levels of everyday socializing. Children spend more time watching TV shows and less time participating activities or discussing their classes. Owing to the pervasive exist of TV commercials, children present much more interests on materials and brands and they seem to be less concentrated on study compared with earlier generations. This trend is true, at least in America. In terms of a nationwide investigation, conducted since 1960s, 74% of contemporary American teens and tweens endorse “being very well-off financially” is the most important value. Back to 1967, the percent is 44%. In contrast, the value which shows the most compelling decline in endorsement is “developing a meaningful philosophy life.” Sociologists attribute the transition to TV. Consequently, to enhance children’s performance at school, parents should not allow their children to spend much time watching TV.
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