Violent TV can harm your child’s development
by RachelTheWriterApril’s journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has a special focus – the effect of media on children. It includes several studies on the effect of violent TV and video games on children and their development. Some of the researchers report that too much violent TV and video games can have a detrimental effect on children’s social and physical development.
One thing they conclude is pretty straight forward. David S. Bickham, a research scientist at Harvard, concluded that the more TV and games they play they less time they spend with their friends. Fairly obviously, this impacts on their social development.
Another report found that violent video games can promote risky behaviour in children, while another found that the labels on the games didn’t often make explicit what kind of bad language or images were in the game.
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