Zakiya's Essay

Be aware with your digital monster!

Ts: The inappropriateness of some cartoon films for children behaviour

            Nowadays,  watching cartoon films is a habitual activity for every children.  They always spend  much time doing this, at least 3 hours per day. Most kids like watching every kind of films which provide anime display. In fact, many cartoon films provide a violence. Definitely, it has a huge bad impact for children’s personality and behaviour. It takes our kids’ lives into a risk.

            Children, they cannot recognize what they watch exactly, whether it  brings to the kindness or violence. Kids cannot filter it yet well. They just enjoy the show as well as they can. In other cases,  the children are still  fresh consumers,  especially for pre-schoolers. It must be big home-work for our goverment. They should make strengthen licence to keep televison cartoon program set. Not all cartoon movies are able to be comsumed by our kids. Mukarram, 8, studying in elementary scool, who received a warning from his school after he beat up a fellow student. When asked for explanation he said innocently: “ I was just showing my friend one of the  moves I watched in a cartoon the night before”. His family being realize they never keep an eye on his tv activities.

            Psychological research have been proven the four major effects of it cause: the children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffer others; children who watch it are not fear violence in general, they may become more fearful of the world around them; and they may be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others (National Institute of Mental Health, 1982). Watching violent cartoons regularly leads the children to consider violence as a normal response to stress and anger. A child who watches cartoon movies regularly decrease the imaginative play, and increase the imitative play in which the child imitates those violence and agressive action. Power Rangers is the example of  bad cartoons. This film teaches child how to solve problem with a violence. It shows how the hero attack the enemy with violence. And children understanding are a badness must be attacked by a badness too.

            Those are some ways to avoid our children from violent harm cartoons. As a good parents we have to monitor our child while watching their favourite movies. Parents have to watch the cartoons with their children, and evaluate these cartoons together. Talking with the children about the cartoons they watched is very significant, because parents will be able to know whether these cartoons affect their children positively or not. In addition, parents can use videotapes of high quality children's programming and public television, so they make sure that the cartoons do not have any violent figures by any mean.