Varianta 28 Television has made us a nation of watchers

[ancanka]

Varianta 028
Agree or disagree with the following statement: Television has made us a nation of watchers, not doers. (250 words/25 lines)

As a nation we spend our workday sitting -- at desks, in cars, in classrooms -- and spend much of our recreation time this way as well, watching sports or watching our children play rather than playing ourselves.Our children are much less active now too, however. While in the fifties our mothers used to beg us to come in from playing outside when it was dark, mothers now have to beg their kids to turn off the television and go outside to play. It is estimated that the average American teenager will have spent more than twenty-two thousand hours in front of a television by the time she graduates from high school. As a nation we have become watchers , not doers, with the remote control TV switch the symbol of our transformation into couch potatoe. And, in my opinion, everything start from childhood. TV viewing numbs your kid's mind as it prevents your child from exercising initiative, being intellectually challenged, thinking analytically, and using his imagination.TV viewing takes away time from reading and improving reading skills through practice Kids watching cartoons and entertainment television during pre-school years have poorer pre-reading skills at age 5 . Also, kids who watch entertainment TV are also less likely to read books and other print media School kids who watch too much TV also tend to work less on their homework. When doing homework with TV on the background, kids tend to retain less skill and information.