Monday, 15 April 2013
The Harmful Effects of Television on Young Children
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Just to get a few minutes to breathe, tired parents can be strongly tempted to sit their kids down in front of the television. But a joint study by Quebec’s Sainte Justine university hospital and the University of Michigan, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, should convince anyone that this is a bad idea. This study showed that the more time children spent in front of the television at ages 2 and 4, the more problems they had in school and the more unhealthy habits they had acquired by age 10.
In this study, excessive television exposure in early childhood resulted in a 7% decrease in classroom engagement, a 6% decrease in math achievement, a 10% increase in victimization by classmates, a 13% decrease in time spent on physical activity on weekends, a 9% increase in consumption of soft drinks, and a 10% increase in consumption of snacks. As the authors of this study point out, early childhood is an essential period for brain development. During this period, the brain, like the body’s neuromuscular junctions, undergoes an intensive process of selective stabilization of the synapses. And the best activity to guide this process is playing—in other words, experimenting with the physical world through movement.
L’exposition précoce à la télévision a des effets négatifs et durables sur les jeunes enfants
Les enfants victimes de la télé
Michel Desmurget, TV Lobotomie. La vérité scientifique sur les effets de la télévision.
Prospective Associations Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Academic, Psychosocial, and Physical Well-being by Middle Childhood
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WHY TELEVISION IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM
As a full creation of thought (sight and sound), television is fully similar to (or like) thought. This presents serious and clear concerns. This is why television is fully detached from touch. Notice that both thoughts and the visual images of TV are shifting and variable. Television and hallucinations are both not normally or naturally visible, and television and hallucinations substitute for our natural visual experience. Importantly, why does television take the form that it does? We have a serious problem here folks.
By Author Frank DiMeglio
More on why TV is a huge problem.
WHY TELEVISION IS A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM
Television is a FULL CREATION OF [generalized] THOUGHT, so it is fully similar to (or like) thought. This presents us with immediate and serious concerns and problems, and this IS related to why television takes the REAL physical form that it does. Indeed, why and how is television ULTIMATELY possible; and what are the full and COMPLETE reasons regarding why it takes the actual/physical form that it does? That is a very SERIOUS and important question. We have big problem here folks. Notice that thoughts are relatively shifting and variable, and the visual images of television are also relatively shifting and variable.
Television is not dream vision, and it is not wakeful vision. Television removes and replaces natural and normal vision, and the visual experience of television is FULLY detached from touch.
Dreams are ordinary, common, natural, normal, and healthy, and they are generally and fundamentally good for us. Dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general, thereby naturally improving upon memory and understanding; as dream experience is not a full creation of thought. In fact, I have already proven that dream vision is the experience of the middle distance in/of space. Television takes this to the next level by completely flattening/eliminating the NATURALLY INTEGRATED and interactive distance in/of space. Indeed, dream experience is semi-detached from touch, and TV is FULLY detached from touch.
In short, the integrated and interactive effects of TV are readily apparent, disturbing, considerable, and very serious; and they are not to be disregarded and underestimated. Any intelligent, caring, HONEST, and perceptive reader will not fail to understand that a very serious, undeniable, highly important, and considerable problem has clearly been identified here.
Indeed, it seems that TV takes the flattened form that it does as a result of COMBINING or ATTACHING the two basically SEPARATE experiences of wakeful visual experience and the visual experience while dreaming.
As a FULL creation of thought (sight and sound), television is fully similar to (or like) thought. This is why television is fully detached from touch.
Television and hallucinations are both not normally, ordinarily, or naturally visible, and television and hallucinations substitute for our natural, healthy, ordinary, functional/beneficial, and true visual experiences.
If we walk away from reality, reality walks away from us.
by Author Frank DiMeglio
See Author Frank DiMeglio Publisher Page for more.