How does violent TV affect kids?

Children model their behavior after adults they look up to. If a child sees the people around them behaving violently toward others they learn violent behaviors. Television is no different and they emulate that behavior, dressing up and pretending to be Superman, the bad guy who beats, or shoots people.

Too much violent TV, or violent games, desensitizes children to violent behavior. For example, in a therapeutic setting, a psychologist will help a person over come their fear by slowly exposing that person to the thing that they fear. The exposure is increased until that person has become desensitized to the stimuli, or the source of their fear.

In my professional opinion, kids under thirteen don't need that negativity influencing their lives. Childhood should be stress free and happy. I don't believe in corporal punishment. Everything in moderation and with parental guidance when exposing kids to sex and violence. on TV.

Studies show that violence on television does have an adverse affect on children and the way they think and act. This is true not only for young children, but some recent studies indicate that watching violence on television can even impact adults.

We know that for the most part, children learn from both experience and social learning or role modeling. Therefore, when children, especially young children, see violence on television, they have a difficult time differentiating between what is real or what is make believe, and tend to emulate or copy what they are seeing. Furthermore, there is a chemical change in the brain, similar to that which is seen in post-traumatic stress disorder; if enough violence is viewed, the brain reacts as if the person doing the viewing has actually been abused. This is especially true if the violence is one sided, as in the case of sadistic violence. Now add to this the fact that children who watch violence on television have brains that are still developing, and you can see how really dangerous TV viewing can be.

We know, for instance, that children are psychologically affected by having less empathy, a characteristic we see in bullies; that they are more likely to use aggressive strategies to solve their problems rather than to search for more peaceful methods of conflict resolution; that they tend to be more reactive rather then proactive -- relying more on knee-jerk reactions to resolve frustrations; and finally, that they appear to be more fearful of social relationships which make them bite before they can be bitten. This perception of danger, when coupled with a lack of empathy, can lead to sadistic behavior. Moreover, children seeing too much violence on TV are more likely to be argumentative, as they have dispensed with the slow caution of inhibitors. These children act out in class and are more likely to be the class bully. Since they seem to be less patient than their counterparts, studies show that children who watch too much violence on TV appear to be more unwilling to cooperate, and delay gratification. Therefore, they seem to demonstrate a strong sense of entitlement.

Its violent. Impressionable. They are kids.

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