People have different opinions about whether watching TV is harmful or good for children. Personally, I believe that watching TV has advantages and disadvantages, which depends on parents’ supervision.
On the one hand, watching television has several disadvantages. Firstly, watching television does harm to children’s health because their obsession with watching TV could result in a sedentary lifestyle, which means a lack of exercise and health problems like obesity. In addition, their study tend to be affected because children are more difficult to concentrate on their homework and they are reluctant to finish their homework, which means a declining academic performance in the long term. Secondly, too much exposure to television may have effects on their behaviors because violence and dirty words appeared in television programs, which is copied by children.
On the other hand, several benefits could be seen in watching television. Firstly, children could get fully relaxed because they could get complete enjoyment and pleasure from television. Furthermore, it helps children becomes more sociable because the content is one of children’s topic when they are getting together. Thirdly television could give richer knowledge to children because educational programs such as historical or military programs tend to help children get information beyond textbook.
As far as I am concerned, whether watching television is beneficial or not depends on parents’ supervision. If parents could help choose the content children they see and control their screen time, then television could do more good to children.