While I was looking through my soul mate, Claire Drinkwater's bookmarks, one of her articles caught my attention. TV and Your Child is a portion of TRUCE website. TRUCE stands for Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment. They have put together specialty packets that you can download at home that lists different options of age-appropriate shows that parent's children can enjoy watching. They started this organization when they read studies that speculated that kids who watch certain types of television are more prowned to "Perform poorly in school," "Become more overweight," "Act like the TV characters act," and "See violence as a form of play and a way to solve problems."
This got me thinking...
I love TV and want more appropriate programming for kids, but what if kids watched too much television? How will this affect their growth and development into young adolence and adulthood? By Jove, I think I got it! I will do research on the effects of television on youth these days! What better way to see into the minds into young people? I can actually find studies on their viewing habits and the consequences of them. Oh man this is exciting! I can finally figure out why everyone loves Hannah Montana! Really, she puts on a blond wig and no one can recognize her? Who are we fooling? We know it's you Miley Cyrus! And I may be able to find some more academically sound information as well.
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