▶ Your Answer :
Nowadays children are spending so much time
watching TV than doing outdoor activities or doing something creative. This
could be due to various reasons, but the foremost reason is the peer group
pressures. This issue can be solved by several parties. In this essay will
discuss in detail for the possible reasons for this trend and how to encourage
children to participate in creative activities.
There are several reasons for children to
watch TV more than outdoor or creative activities. It could be for the entertainment,
relaxation and educational reasons, but the first and the foremost reason is to
follow the trend. The trend for children is usually influenced by their social
groups; peer group in school. In school, the topic for a day for the peer group
is changing every day but is based on TV. For example, if children’s peer group
are talking about Justin Bieber’s new album. If children do not know who Justin
Bieber is, they may feel pressure to know about the information from TV because
the consequence is fearful. Otherwise, the rest of friends will be gossiped
about being too slow to catch up with the trend or that could lead to get
bullies by isolate for being out of trend. The frequent changing with the
various topics for peer groups, children have to keep watching TV to follow the
trend. Therefore, watching TV can be the solution for children to be part of
social group so that they can communicate with their friends.
This trend can be solved by various
factors. Schools, to start with, can provide a various activities to children
during the class to find the suitable activities for each child. Also, they can
provide a creative activity as homework so that children will be forced to do
their homework with their parents. The parents can be the role model for their
child to reduce the time in watching TV. Instead, they can participate to do
the homework with their children. For example, when school assigned homework to
children to make something from recycling materials, parents can help their
child to build a rocket from recycling materials together. By doing this,
children can create a creative thinking. Furthermore, local communities can
exhibit such a project done by children to local center so that local people
can see the work done by children. That can be the topic for a day for
children. Therefore, helping from various factors (schools, parents and local
communities) can encourage children to change the topic from TV to their
creative activities, so that they can be interested in those activities.
In conclusion, despite several reasons for
children to spend so much time watching TV, their main reason is the pressures
from their peer groups. This can be solved by the aids from various factors
(school, parents and local communities) to encourage their creative activities
to their creative thinking. |