Reynard Loyola

The Effects of Violence and Sex in Media to Children

Most people enjoy watching TV and doing stuff on the internet. We're on the 21st century and a lot of cool stuff to see, whether its on the internet, TV, mobile phones, and anything through media. But we never realize the negative effects of it to children.

Anything that children see or hear through media affect them in different ways. Media literate parents should limit their kids not older than 13 of violent videos and movies. Parents should not even let their kids watch sex movies. The media is so advance that inappropriate videos and movies are legal which is very hard for parents since millennial today are so updated to gadgets and news.

  Children accessible to gadgets and internet tend to be curious about stuff. One day you'll just realize what your kid already knows. I'm not saying only children are prone to violence and sex in media, its just that this habits and absurd characters starts when we are at a young age. So, if a child has access to all this stuff, who knows how she/he will react to this informations as he/she grows up.

At a young age children begin to play video games they have not quite developed the ability to distinguish between what is reality and what its not.  This can cause young children to act upon the violence they have viewed on television, video games and such, not knowing that what they are doing is wrong or inappropriate. Children tend to be imaginary and often act out what they see and hear on TV or in the internet.

The fact of the matter is that parents should monitor and be more attentive to their children.  In the act of a busy life we all tend to forget the real life issues.  Parents need to pay more attention to their children’s lives and not sit them in front of the television, weather it is for movies, video games, etc.  In my opinion in this day and age most parents get too wrapped up in their own lives to be concerned about what their children are doing. Parents should be spending more time with their kids, visiting places, having quality time with them, thus limiting the time they had been spending on media. With the child knowing he/she is loved, they'll understand the true meaning of happiness and will eventually shun out the limited time they get from media.  Raising a child is hard enough in this day and age but you add all the outside media violence and it makes it ten times harder to steer your child in the right direction.  Does that really mean violent media causes children to be violent?  I don’t believe so, these children get bored and should be limited to the types of media entertainment they are exposed to. Sometimes all a parent should do is to create some time for their kids so that they will not rely on the media to fill up their needs, desires and wants.  All we can do as parents is pay attention to our children and stay involved in their lives before it is too late.