SAY NO TO IDIOT BOX!

                     Tomorrow when I was making my assignment, the little sister of mine was listening the song “Sheila ki jawani” when she sang the line ”I'm just sexy for you; Main tere haath na aani” she asked me “appi sexy ka matlab kia hota hai?” well, I told her not to ask again from anybody, it means something bad and u know it after u become 18. And she understands it! But I thought again that young generation is so curious to know, several question raise into the mind of every child just because of idiot box and our media.

          The television was invented by John Logie Baird as a means of mass entertainment and communication. It was a wonderful gift of science to man kind but now a days it is too much entertaining us. Over the years it has been exploded, and today, the only things that are depicted on television are violence, sex and pop music, which are quite alien to our culture and tastes. Youngsters are very sensitive to such things as they are at an impressionable age. What ever they watch gets imprinted on their minds easily. The worse thing is that television watching of youngsters is not being monitored. This has led to disastrous consequences. I list below a few of the bad effects of television on the young:

·        Youngsters force their parents to buy them things that are shown in advertisements.

·        Youngsters damage their eyesight by watching television for long hour.

·        They lose interest in studies and their grades go down.

·        Some even go to the extent of imitating the stunts scenes performed by action heroes in movies,

          Sometimes back, there was a shocking incident of a boy who jumped from his 5^th floor flat thinking that his so-called hero would come to rescue him. When I saw that new on TV, I would love the innocence of the boy and feel shame for our media, what artificiality they are delivering in us.

          Apart from its entertainment, there is another important reason why youngsters watch television. It is because they fear being left out. They want to be in-touch with the in-things. Like the latest movies and fashion trends and the going-ons in the daily soaps because these are the things discussed at schools more than the studies.

          Some of you may argue that cartoons are a healthy means of entertainment for the very young. But think again. Only five percent of cartoons have a moral content. The rest depict only fashion, violence, romance and flirting. E.g.: Johnny Bravo, Aladdin, poppy.

          What I want to say is that the idiot box is harmful for children as well as youngsters & we youngsters need to keep away from it. Also elders should monitor which type of content children are seeing on the TV.