This article was included in a newsletter I prepared for a kindergarten in 2015. 4 years have passed and when I read it, I realized how much we don't talk about television right now. Yes, in this article, we have to change the television section to tablet, social media and YouTube.
Because the poison is no longer secret but comes from the open!!!
While the world of television can serve different purposes for everyone, many people generally use it to have fun and spend time. This world has another purpose, which also applies to children. It is to introduce children to many different things that they do not know. Children receive various messages from their lifestyles and behaviors on television. According to research, children under the age of 8 have difficulty distinguishing the difference between reality and fiction. This causes children to form their own concepts of "violence, family, sexuality...".
Recently, the clothing industry's advertising campaigns that are effective on children have been appearing on television. Our children learn about ever-changing fashion and new products from television commercials and think they can live just like those lives. Under the influence of the programs they watch on television, children decide what they will be in the future without thinking about their own personality traits, tastes and family values.
Especially lately, the desire to become an actor, model or artist is rapidly spreading among young people in our country. However, it should be noted that many of these young people are not influenced by their talents, but by the attraction of both the material and spiritual aspects of the lives they see on television. Many young people, who believe that they can survive as an ordinary university graduate with a certain salary, want to try shorter and more attractive ways. At this point, conscious parents and a strong family communication network are needed.
Unfortunately, the seeds of this dangerous process that young people are in are sown with our preschool children. Children who unconsciously spend time in front of the television can access all kinds of broadcasts. The worst thing is that the TV series about young people's relationships, which are broadcast in the evening hours, are watched together with the family just because the children are not sleeping. This Before talking about ways to protect our children from the dangers associated with television, it is necessary to consider to what extent parents protect themselves.
Just as everything in life should have a measure, it is necessary to determine a measure for television. What can we do for our children in front of television, which we consume excessively and become ruthlessly exhausted?
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Parents should first think about what television means to their world. It may not be a realistic expectation to expect the child to throw aside the television, which is in the area of the house where most of the time is spent and in the location and size that everyone can watch in the best way. The more importance you attach to television, the more your child will too. How about moving television aside from your life?
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Compliment them when they stop watching television or turn to something more constructive. These compliments, which we consider as a kind of reinforcer, enable positive behavior to increase by capturing it. Expressions such as "I see that you prefer to turn off the television and build a farm with these legos...", "I see that you have now moved on to the homework phase by respecting the television time and I am very happy that you can now manage time..." are positive for repeating the behavior.
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Watch television with your child. In this way, you can communicate about what they can watch and what they cannot watch. Many parents fail to notice what their children are watching, and children can switch between channels as they wish.
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I think there should be no television in the child's room. Just to prevent television discussions at home, a television is placed in the child's room and he watches it in his room as he wishes. Such behavior is in no way understandable. Solution; It should not be a second television, but the only television that everyone should be able to use fairly.
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