Should parents limit the amount of television their children watch?

Should parents limit the amount of television their children watch?


To give an exact response to this statement is very hard, because I don’t know if it is right or not. We must answer first to the question if the television is bad to our children or not. We could consider that if children watch television they are learning a lot of things and they receive many new information and they improve their knowledge, but now in these days in the television are a lot of brutality, sexuality and other bad things that aren’t good for children’s mind. And other thing is that we don’t know which amount of television watching is good. How we could know if one hour is good or that six ours are good too? By my opinion it depends if we are watching documentaries or if we are watching to stupid soup operas. I think when we are watching to some good programs in which we could find some useful information we are learning lot of things and I think that is good for kids. So it depends of the contents of the program. And everyone must relax in some way and I think that television is very good for relaxing, so I think that watching some programs even if they are stupid won’t destroy our mind. But right is that children watch too much to television, and so they do not have lot of time to do other things. I think that kids should read some books – books are very good to imagination but now I think that many people consider that reading books is something bad and so they only watch TV. And if parents will strictly say that their kids could watch TV for few hours, their kids will be angry to their parents and won’t respect them.
So I think that the best way to resolve this problem is if the parents will sit down with their kids and the parents will explain that the kids should decide which programs are good for them and understand that watching to TV for a long time is not very good for them and that they should go out with their friends and to do other activities.