▶ Your Answer : Some people might think that Televison is not good for children's studying environment, while others might not. If I were asked to choose one, I would say that reducing time for TV is good for children's academic performance. There are several reasons as follows. To begin with, when parents prevent children from watching TV, children can spend their time to study and thus improve their acdemic performance. Because TV programs, such as dramas, music shows and reality shows, are so attractive to children, they tend to spend too much time on watching them. By prohibiting children watching TV, they can make better use of time. For example, many research center, including Seoul National University, analyzed data from two groups of young adults. One group consisted of those who had habitually watched TV more than 2 hours a day, and the other group was made up of those who had watched TV less than 30 minutes a day. Ther researchers found that the latter had a higher score on SAT than the former. In particular, the second group had more studying time, a longer attention span than the first group. This implies that watching TV is not good for student's academic performance. If they had reduced their time watching TV, they have been able to focus on studying. In addition, when children do not watch TV, they can use spared time to make a longer conversation with their parents. Thus, parents can tell them advice to children's school life and academic performance. If parents give advice to their childre, children are likely to have motivation for study and study harder. For example, my younger brother spent his whole day watching Television and thought his school life as tedious routine. However, my parents decided to remove TV set and gave advice to him about a goal of life. After this, he became very diligent student and spent more time on studying. Without removing TV set, he would have fell behind. All things considered, the advantages of not allowing children to spend too much time on TV far outweigh those of letting them watch it.
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