Question:A report indicated that many children between 7 and 11 spend too much time watching television or play video games.  How does this problem affect the children, their families and society?What measures can be taken to control it?

Nowadays, many children are likely to spend much significant amounts of time on the watching television or playing computer games. These behaviours have a negative effect on these children’s childrens' growth process.

Watching TV for too long much time has a damaging effect on chilidren’s children's ability to study,  because they cannot concentrate focus their mind on their studies.  If they watch TV for long hours, it will take away their study time will be occupied.  As a result, they may have bad scores of in their courses.

Spending too much time on TV or video games may put a threat to threaten the child's language ability.  They neglect the communication time with their parents and society social activities. Sometimes, they can only receive information from TV, but they have less opportunity to express their own feelings to peers, friends, or family members. At the same time, their language abilities may suffer because they lack do not participate in some outdoor times activities, which would allow them to get to know their society., so their language ability may suffer the bad influence.

As parents, they can control their children's screen time and cultivate children’s their interests, such as drawing, singing or cooking skills.  For example, the parents can use weekend time to take their children to the park to draw for drawing or to play games playing games.They can also enable their child to participate in the cooking time which does can not only exercise practice the child’s language ability, but also encourages their creative ability.