Why does my computer and TV are dangerous for children? – Arguments and Facts

Responsible teacher-artterapevt, a board member of the Russian Children’s Fund Tatiana Shishova:

– While watching TV, a person changes the current activity of the brain and there comes the so-called “alpha state”, a trance. In 1979 wrote about this Australian researchers and Fred Emery Merrilin . Long sitting out front of the screen, the child gets used to the trance state, they are necessary to him. A trance and the voltage required to overcome the difficulties are incompatible.

Suffering and intelligence. “Our research clearly showed that children often watch TV less read, worse distinguish real from fiction; they have less developed imagination … they are characterized by increased anxiety – write researchers from Yale University Dorothy and Jerome Singer . – This all leads to the fact that when the child is in school, it is less suited for life. ” Overreliance on screen prevents a person to concentrate, reduces self-control and increases irritability.

An interesting study conducted about 30 years ago at the University of British Columbia Tennis psychologist M. MacBeth Williams . He watched members of the same mountain community in which there was no television first, and then there was cable. Gradually, children and adults began to vanish creative approach to solving everyday problems and various weakened commitment.

A few years ago a group of professionals working in the framework of the “Doctors of the World – for children”, examined a large number of young residents of St. Petersburg. Findings are disappointing: almost everyone who watches television for several hours a day, the intellectual development of a few years behind the physical. These children and adolescents suffer heavily increased loads. They have a partial shutdown of consciousness occurs. Incidentally, such a reaction is observed when listening to loud rhythmic music (but now not only high school students, but also in “nachalke” there are fans of rock).

Children are accustomed to rapid flickering frames poorly understood is said to them. Difficult for them to listen to the teacher. Many are lagging behind in speech development. English society to help children with speech defects as early as 1996 reported that already every third child in England ‘lags behind in speech development. ” The schools even began to introduce special programs, teaching children to greet and seven years to ask for directions. We previously have not yet reached, but speech delay is diagnosed more often.

It is very easy on the computer and the TV hooked children excitable, hyperactive, self-willed, children with exaggerated claims that do not match the level of their capabilities. In short, just such way because of their particularly difficult to overcome obstacles. Going at them on occasion, parents actually driven own children in a vicious circle of failures, from which the children themselves are usually unable to escape.