TV: The Plug-in Drug

Television viewing has become an inevitable and ordinary part of daily life. In those early days writers frequently discussed the effects of television on family life. However, acurious myopia afflicted those early observes: almost without exception they regarded television as a favorable, beneficial, indeed, wondrous influence upon the family. ' Television will take over your way of living and change your children's habits, but this change can be a wonderful improvement, ' clamis another comentator. Home and family life has changed in important ways since the advent of television. The peer group has become television-oriented, and much of the time children spend together is ocuupied by television viewing. Culture generally has been transformed by television. Mealtime rituals, going-to-bed rituals, illness rituals, holiday rituals, how many of these have survived the inroads of the television set? Now everyone was sitting in front of the television set, on a holiday, at a family party! Family relationships are going to be much harmful than today, if we will addicted to TV.