Should children watch television at a young age? How young is too young? Does early exposure cause unseen consequences on later behavior in children? Is there healthy versus unhealthy television watching that could impact behavior, brain development or psychology? Theories, hypothesizes or ideas.
There have been a lot of studies on this, and the answer depends on the age of viewing and the content. In this 2017 article inn Pediatrics, the authors state that:
"For children
Brian Pike I have thoughts those without looking at or conduction a study myself. I am very much interested in what others have to say about this.
Some of my earliest memories involve watching the late 1960s NASA space program on TV. It had a big impact on me, and perhaps helped spur my interest in science.
As with all behavioral science questions, the answer is, I think, "It depends." It depends on how much television is watched; it depends on what is neglected in favor of watching television (conversation with adults? reading? interaction with other children? game playing? sleep?); it depends on the content of the television programs; it depends on the volume; it depends on the age of the child; and it depends on all other characteristics of television viewing and all other characteristics of the child. A quick search with my library's search engine for peer-reviewed articles on "television" produced 692,487 non-duplicate articles. I'm afraid your question is too general.
I don't recall what age she was but at some point I told my daughter that she could choose which TV programs she watched, but only up to a maximum of two hours daily. She learned very quickly to be selective in her viewing habits!
I agreee with fully with @Francis C. Dane.The research done on digital media,specially smartphones in our country have found no association with their achievement in mile stones.(when author publish the results I will put the reference)But it seems there is a difference between TV and smart phone.Smart phones are considered as interactive and TV passive .
watching TV arrest the thinking power of children so it reduce brain development
in our home we have to take care of them
sit with them and ask some tinging queries, scientific process and explanation about inventions some moral stories etc.
Something else I used to do with my daughter, when we watched TV advertising together, was ask her questions like, "So, if I buy that brand of gum, women will be throwing themselves at me - right?" She quickly developed a healthy cynicism towards advertising.
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