How Hurt Our Children's TV?

Alexis Fernando Jiménez The news stunned the entire city. The boy, who was to meet just five years, had jumped from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Miraculously did not die but suffered multiple fractures. When approached in an attempt to assist, we find him dressed in a Spiderman costume, the same with which their parents had taken the last trick in celebration of Halloween. "I'm Spiderman?, Often repeated in the games with their friends. Rose Oliveira, mother, she sobbed to a reporter who never imagined the enormous damage that television would bring her baby. "I never thought that this tragedy were to occur?. While the incident did not go higher and the boy plays again today at a nearby park, the Oliveira discovered and learned in their family experiential reality, the degree of influence of television programs in infants. Terrible consequences of television Recent research by U.S. scientists and released to Reuters, shows that children under three are severely affected when passing from one to three hours watching television. Concluded that they begin to experience aggressive behavior , become disobedient, crying excessively and show a marked tendency to hit other children.

3.1280 were surveyed women 20 American cities, who gave birth between 1998 and 2000. Raul Huessman, University of Michigan, was emphatic in assuring that: "Parents can not allow children enraptured by violent movies?, To which the psychologist Nelly Manganello, noted:" Parents should be more careful and aware about using television?. Surprisingly, according to the researchers and what fits the American Academy of Psychiatry, is that small are affected and are not facing the screen and are influenced by only the power is on and hear the messages at the bottom in the distance. Recommend that children under two watch no television and older children, spend no more than an hour to appreciate programs, the degree of vulnerability of exposed to content that broadcast programs, as well as cartoons. Now, another recent study published by the Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute shows that for every hour of violent television a child consumes less than 5 years, aggression increases three times later. The research was conducted in the United States with children between 2 and 5 years.

For 40 years, investigated 184 men and 146 girls, which types of programs were seen by them and what was his subsequent conduct. He points out that children are exposed to the influence of television are inclined to aggressive behavior and disobedience during childhood and adolescence.

The most important conclusion of this study says that for every hour of violent television children triple their chances of developing violent behavior, which is really worrying. As for girls, the reality is different, they did not develop violent behavior. How much time you spend with your children? The time we spend with our children and how we communicate with them, are of paramount importance. Is to interact with them as we give them values ​​and principles that will help them grow and formed with a solid foundation. This pattern designed to build successful families with children raised healthy, is not new to science spread and reaffirmed by psychology. On the contrary, is very old and shared King Solomon when he taught the parents: "Train up a child in the way, and when he is old he will not depart from it? (Proverbs 22:6). Note that what we sow in our children, from earliest childhood, stay in your heart forever. Even if time passes, will present these recommendations. They will be like guards around, showing them God-in the right path. Now, I'd probably tell you: "My partner and I work?.

That is a very typical of our time, although has been fueled by such complex situations as the economic crisis should not lead us to pass up even the smallest moment that we have with our progeny. Since we joined our lives, my beloved wife Lucero and I agreed that she was in charge of our children. It was somewhat arbitrary but rather, a decision to accept and which we have never regretted that we were able to influence our three children with strong principles. Stage influenced Parents unconcerned about their children and to "get rid of them?, I turn on the TV to a channel of animated games or movies. The little ones have learned to live with violence, scenes of sensuality, screaming, hate-filled eyes, adultery, selfishness, alcohol, pride and, I can tell, the list is endless. The trouble is that at a tender age, infants are impressionable and all information that "absorb? through TV, ends up affecting their present form and future thinking and acting. Do not forget that our children are starting their training and that everything they see, hear, and live, will weigh on them.

Think for a moment the fact of observing violence can cause children to loaded behaviors of fear and insecurity. Even in addition to aggressive behavior may include demonstrations of impulsivity. It's time to ask ourselves what we have open space in our home on television, and recognize that both on-screen program, they become less creative, less live with the family and their friends, they become lazy to read and their performance is reduced school year. It also increases the tendency to eat too. Sow in early healthy children As parents, we apply biblical principles in our lives. Experiences. It is the best way to replicate at home. Remember that the best teaching is that we teach by example. So God instructed him to his chosen people and that extends to us today: "And these words which I command you today shall be upon your hearts, and diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when at home, and walking the way, and at bedtime and when you rise. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and shall be as frontlets between your eyes and write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.? (Deuteronomy 6:6-10) Note carefully that the recommendation of the Lord these patterns is that sow in our children.

It is a task we must undertake from when they meet in early childhood. Biblical guidelines in practice and experience we share with the children, allow them to emerge unscathed in every circumstance of life, such as the Scriptures teach: "I will lead when you walk, when you sleep you saved, talk to you when you wake up. For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and the way of life reproofs of instruction, to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ? (Deuteronomy 6:22-24) There are a number of valuable recommendations on the subject of our children's time spent watching television: Learn in detail the type of channel programming their children watch frequently; an interest in the subject that handle TV spots, monitor the time they spend in front of the screen to monitor the nutrition of them, especially what type of food consumed when they are engrossed in a movie or a program, to assess whether their school has been affected by the time they are as viewers and make sure you get enough sleep. And finally, a victory for the principle of building a successful family: be the best friend of their children.

Give them confidence. Not that you are in the ogre, and teaches law imposing punishment, but the friend, someone you can talk about your concerns, fears and expectations. Remember that in this process forward, but giving first place to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. May He be the King of your life, your family, your children ... If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to fernandoalexis@aol.es or if you prefer, you can contact me at (0057) 317-4913705 . © Fernando Alexis Jimenez