The Influence of Cartoons to Young Children

THE INFLUENCE OF CARTOONS TO YOUNG CHILDREN

 

      A Child Psychology gathered groups of parents and teachers in a certain school and ask them what influence a child five years old below to commit violence? A. Fighting of their parents, B. Peer pressure C. Cartoons, most parents answered letter A while most teachers answers B while only few answered letter C but the psychologist had shown a video interaction about children that proves 8 out 10 children would imitate the cartoons that they seen on television. Parents and teachers may be aware about the effects of cartoons for such very young children but they may not understand its severity.

      Children may have fear in fighting parents and distressed them, they may have fought with their classmates several times in school but subconsciously they pretend to be what they see in cartoons that are often manifested through their actions and their words. Subconsciously children are susceptible to what they seen and heard on television especially cartoons that is in their imagination. If children sees fighting and outrages, revenges and desire to fight it may fulfill their tender mind to do things without tolerance they may use their toys or their brothers and sisters or they may even exercise their newly acquired knowledge to their parents by beating them although parents may not understand their behavior that children includes the fighting in their play until they learn to perform violence as a habit as they grow.

      A very young boy may see the heroic act of the character in the movies and may pretend to believe that it is right to use force to achieve things and they may perform it intentionally that he can put his shoes in the hero that he likes they may even use various tools as mask, gadgets, toy-guns or broomstick as a weapons to get what they want. For very young girls they may like the story of fairy that has the power to use a rod or stick to beat a dragon or slaying monsters. Actually not just cartoons but any other shows and media including games from various media, books and gadgets that appeals to children may affect their behavior and may form their character to imitate it.

       Parents and teachers may use various chosen forms of media that are selected to enrich their minds to knowledge and academic inclusion with play, songs and dances that is enjoyable and nurturing. Parents and teachers should cooperate for the benefits of the child through reviews of materials that they often use, schools may have the necessary materials to recommend them to the parents so they can also use the materials at home as a form of creative learning and bonding for the family. There are many available media on the internet sometimes it is free; sometimes you need a little payment. It is easy to check and review such media, there are parental guidance signs and review of what age bracket should watch the show in the form of board review. Look for the labels of toys and videos that says 3 years old and up is safe, general patronage and grade A is also safe.    

      Parents may need to check the television shows and cartoons that that their children watch they may also need to show the children about the benefits of the stories about what they view, set the time to criticize and review the impact of the cartoons so that children may understand the real benefit of the show on their life. Parents and teachers may give advice to show the students about what may happen if they tend to imitate such actions for example the fighting of two characters may look good but what is the reason why they are fighting or is it good for people to fight? Until children may need to understand and discover what they need to imitate at what it is not.

      With the guidance of parents and teachers they will learn tolerance and proper exercises of what they watch, which is important. They should not allow children to watch television the whole day especially during weekend in order to do this they must be exposed with extra- curricular activities in school and at home that is more nurturing and helpful to children. Activities like piano lessons, ballet, music lessons or kite flying, gardening, sports engagement or baking is definitely a good ways to teach them so they learn and enjoy new things.

      To further increase their knowledge parents and teachers should work hand in hand to join their children in their activities for moral support. In the mind of a child it is a new discovery that will enhance their talents and skills about their strengths and weaknesses, they can also discover confidence and involvement in a healthy atmosphere, and this can shape their future behavior and attitude towards growth. This is not to delimit or prevent their time in watching their favorite cartoon shows but to create a life balance and a healthy atmosphere that will further expose them to reality rather than fantasy and violence brought about by cartoons and other media that they often used. (http://www.parents-choice.org/default.cfm)

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