TELEVISION EFFECTS ON CHILDREN
Television is one of the most prevalent media influences in children lives. How much impact TV has on children depends on many factors sample how much they watch, their age and personality, whether they watch alone or with adults, and whether their parents talk with them about what they see on TV. Television also can affect learning and school performance if it cuts into the time kids need for activities crucial to healthy mental and physical development. Most of children's free time, especially during the early formative years, should be spent in activities such as playing, reading, exploring nature, learning about music or participating in sports. Television may influence the social, moral, ethical, social, intellectual and personality development of the children. This is because the influence of television, such as violence, horror, sex, love and cartoons. So parents should be to control the use of TV and to teach the children that it is for entertainment.