Television Essay This essay is a argument against the watching of telivision by our children, and the backfalls of television on our children's lives and health.

Most parents I know worry about how much television their children are watching, but I see very little being done about actually cutting down their children's television time. The average child watches three to four hours of T. V. a day and another two and a half hours more on the television watching movies or playing video games, for a total of six and a half hours of television a day. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a little more than half of our children have a T. V. in their bedrooms, and three- quarters of children eat their dinner in front of the television. All of this television is taking time away from our children's lives, which could be replaced with more crucial and beneficial activities such as reading, exercising, and playing with friends. Instead, our children are seeing the wrong messages from the programs they are watching, including, sex, violence, drugs, racism, war, bad language, and even suicide, that sometimes carry into their every- day lives.

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Our children are seeing all these adult images before they should.

There are many different avenues in television programming that demonstrates violence to our children. As a child I remember how I feared the killer patrolling the streets with his razor-sharp knife or fingers waiting to pierce my body. I would have never had this fear without the blood and gore of horror films that were shown on late- night television. These movies almost always showed a weak plot based on violent actions, and in the end there never showed the perpetrator as being punished, leading some children to believe that violence can be accomplished without a consequence. Another passageway to violence is through what has been called "professional" wrestling. The WWF is a terrible way that instills violence into our...