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Turn off your television and go to study now!” that sentence is
not uncommon any more in our ears, isn’t it? It is often said by
most mothers in our environment. Most of mothers often feel difficult
to ask their sons or daughters to do their duty. Their children stand
on wacthing television for some hours. It causes some mothers feel
confused and worried about the development of their children’s
minds. As we know that television is one of popular entertainment,
communication, and education equipment in our daily life. With
television, people, especially chiildren, can refresh and develop
their minds to get knowledge and entertainment, but television does
not always become the effective way to build the minds of children.
It can give bad influences for their minds especially in their moral
and intelligence.
Television
can give the bad effect for children’s moral. We know that
television always serves various shows or programs for the viewers.
Unfortunately, television often shows the program which are not
suitable with the children’s age such as criminal news, sinetron,
upper 17-years-old movie, fashion, fight program etc. Intan Pariwara
says in one of the analytical text that the programs which were
unsuitable with children’s age could affect the children’s
behaviour, and could make the children mature before their time (
Detik-detik ujian nasional, 2013) so that they can loss their
chilhood. The statement above is strengtened by Dr. Agus Darsono,
open university professor, he mentions that children between 5 until
9 years old were good at catching concrete thing (perkembangan
peserta didik, 2009:5.1-5.30). Based on what he says, we can know
that children will be easily effected by what they watch from the
television whether it isgood or not. By watching television’s
program uncontrolledly, the children can also grow to be spoiled
guys. If they wacth amusing advertisement, commonly the children will
have their parents buy those things for them. It is not seldom any
more if the children will cry and force their parents to get what
they want so that this case can build bad behaviour for the children.
Television
can give the bad effects for children’s intelligence also. Most of
television stations compete to attract the viewers’ interest and
attention by showing some amusing programs or shows. That’s why
television often shows intertaining programs especially for the
children such as Teletubbles, Sponge bob, Larva etc. The amount of
intereted programs shown by television makes the children stand in
front of the television for a couple hours and make them lazy. Anita
Wibisono, a psychoanalysist, states that being lazy was one of the
factors that can decrese the intelligence of the children (
Wikipedia). If the students or children are enjoyful to watch
television programs, they will not study, do their duty and do their
homework consequently their achievment will decrease and their brain
will not develop well because it is seldom used to think.
Whether
television is the effective wayto build the minds of the children has
been answered and known from the explanation above. Commonly,
everything always has positive and negative sides, included
television can be useful tool and vice versa, television can cause
the poor impacts for the children’s moral and intelligence with the
programs shown. In this problem, the parent’s role takes the
important part to take care and guide their children in watching the
best program for them in order that we can build the moraled and
intelligent mind for the children like what we hope.
Work
cited:
- Detik-detik Ujian Nasional. Surabaya: Intan Pariwara, 2013
- Darsono, Dr Agus, Perkembangan Peserta Didik. Tangerang : Universitas Terbuka, 2009: 5.1-5.30
- Wibisono, anita. Pengaruh Negatif Televisi Bagi Anak. Dampak Negatif televisi. 10 Apr 2013 ( http//.www.wikipedia.com)
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