When you turn on the television or the radio, do you ever think about what you hear and see. Most of the time it's a girl in her underwear, or a beer advertisements. The reality shows are mostly about sex and partying. The kids in this generation listen to music that talk about woman being sex symbols, or objects of passion. Questions are brought up by parents that try to keep their children away from all the violence from the television.
Kids and TV
Kids love that thing called the TV, but what exactly are you letting your kids watch. These days when you watch the news they talk about kids shooting up the schools, because of the movie that came out the prior week. Like Steve Lopez said, “No one expects a great deal of enlightenment from the tubes today.” All the things that your kids see around them have some kind of effect on their brain. The television has a huge impact on a child's mind, because a kid watches on average seven hours of TV a week.
Sex Ad
If you ever just walk down the street and seen advertisement for some clothing stores. The funny thing is that most of the models are wearing close to nothing. They know what generation they are attracting. They are trying to give a sexy image to attract the younger age groups. Every girl has that perfect image burnt into their brain, and its what they want too. The girls also have an image of becoming the super model thin that they see on that screen. They begin to believe that they can become those beautiful woman. That's why 1% of teenage girls have the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. Their is also 4% of teenage girls that had bulimia. All the perfect visions of being a model has caused 80% of young girls to at least try to lose weight. Altogether over eight million Americans have had some time of problem with their image, and their weight.
Now What
If you have never really cared what your kids watch on TV maybe you should. What they see on television becomes a big deal in their lives. Anything that comes on the television these days usually isn't good. Maybe you should consider turning off the television and picking up a book. Even then, you can't get away from most of the other things around you that establish sex appeal. When you walk down the street you can't escape the influence that television has had on other people around you.
