As science has been developing, human beings have become familiar with various machines of civilization, such as airplanes, automobiles, computers, TVs and so on. However, the most familiar one of them must be TV. Today, most of the families all over the world have one or more TVs and spend a lot of time watching it. Also, TV is trying to capture our attention more and more by showing various interesting programs. Regardless of being adults or kids, a lot of people are becoming captives of the TV. This problem is more serious for our kids. Actually, TV affects kids in some negative ways.

TV makes children imitate a lot of negative scenes. First of all, children may copy some crimes they see on TV. They may learn how to kill someone, steal money and deceive the police from the TV. Secondly, children learn some abusive language from TV. While the children are watching TV, they learn some abusive and impolite expressions. Finally, children may senselessly imitate inappropriate scenes they have watched on TV at that time as well as after they grow up. Actually, today, TV continuously shows a lot of inappropriate scenes depicting things such as violence, homosexuality and adultery. Indeed, TV leads many children to behave unconsciously just as they have watched on TV.

TV deprives young people of their time to play outside. Many young people like watching TV more than enjoying nature outside. They are losing the chance to experience nature such as the soil, grasses, and plants because of watching TV. Also, they have little exercise outside. So many young people choose TV in their house instead of playing sports outside, such as basketball, baseball, soccer and so on. In addition, as a consequence of the above two facts, young people are becoming corpulent. Due to decreasing time to play outside, many young people are fat and weak. In fact, TV forces young people to stay in their house.

Kids are taken of their time to talk because of spending time watching TV. These days, kids’ time to talk with their families is reducing. As a result of consuming their time on TV, kids miss a chance to converse with their siblings or parents seriously. Furthermore, kids are robbed of their time to talk with books. Many kids think that reading is boring compared with watching TV, so kids’ reading time is diminishing. Besides, as a result of that kids are taken of their time to talk with their family member and books, kids cannot express their opinion well. That is, kids have very few communication skills and expression abilities. Indeed, TV makes kids speechless by taking their time to converse.

In conclusion, TV is harmful to kids. Not only does TV make children imitate a lot of negative scenes, but also deprives them of their time to play outside. Moreover, TV rob kids of their time to talk with their family and books. For these reasons, we should keep kids being far from the TV.