Without doubt, circumstances of young children
is important part in society. Some people say that television advertising
directed toward young children should not be allowed, while others disagree.
Both sides have their own reasons to support their views. If I had to choose
one, I would say that television advertising need to be banned by government.
There are several reasons and example as follows; Hharmful effects of the youth development, and Aaccident
caused by advertisements.
First of all, the mental development of children could be negatively affected
by television advertising. This is due to the fact that young children are
easily influenced by external stimulus compared to adults because of lack of
sense of decision. Therefore, they could not recognize between advertising and
the reality. With this false concept, children tend to have negative habits
from the start. For example, according to the Korean Research Center in 2017,
there are huge difference between two groups of children. The group which was
exposed by television advertising showed mental disorder up to 25% higher than
the group who did not see that at all. These are clear link between television
advertising and the mental development of children.
Secondly, Television commercial can be connected to the dangerous accidents. It
is obvious that a youth tends to imitate the things they see. Thus, they
unconsciously follow the television advertising even it is violent for them. So
it will be possible to happen to trouble with them. For instance, my youngest
brother used to watch TV advertisements frequently did the same things like
actors on the TV. Soon he broke his arm to fall down from second floor windows
to imitate the silly scene. This is the reason why children should avoid TV
commercial directly show to the children.
In brief, children's mental development and tendency of mimic attitudes are
negatively affected by TV advertising. All in all, we need to find a way to
keep our children away from the harmful television advertising.