Are the TV channels tresspassers of Children's space?

By Chinnaa

Greetings from Chinnaa!,
I am going to share my thoughts on Indian TV channels, the heroes of the 'home theatre' concept that are most wanted and heavily consumed by one and all, irrespective of whether one is literate or illiterate, rich or poor, this caste or that caste (Indian contribution to the world, forget about Apartheid) , from America or India, Tamil or Malayalee (see the phenomenal growth of malayalees in Tamil film industry), woman or man ( what about transgendered persons?), elite or subaltern, person working in a BPO or rickshaw puller.Is it true that these TV channels become aggressive trespassers of the valuable space and time of our children, whom we are supposed to format in to a good human being and a better citizen for others?

I asked some of my neighbour parents whom I know, about their most difficult job in in their household. Pat came the similar type of replies from many of them 'Controlling our children regarding their TV viewing habits'

'What's wrong in TV viewing?. I was really inquisitive and enquiring in my thought.

'Nothing wrong if consumed in a limited way. we have problems only when they resort to more hours and it really affects their other growing attributes as children'

'What are the 'other' problems?'

'They don't eat well, interpersonal relationships with us is poor, with cartoon shows they are always grim-faced, they are lazy, stationary and fixed to their seats, they don't read books and newspapers, we are afraid they may develop personality problems in future,'

These children spent three to four hoursin front of TV sets in addition to what they spend for their education. Robbing them of their full-fledged, all round, holistic, child development will be a crime of grave nature. Later, we will be held responsible if we don't intervene now with possible alternatives.

What are these alternatives?

We have to tell them that we love them more than anything in this world. we should also do some sacrificing to be a role-model so that children believe and follow us. we should spend more time with them chatting, playing, sharing and making them understand that we are for them.

In this way we can bring them to us, from the aggressive tresspass of the TV channels. Once they are brought to positive habits away from the addictive TV programmes we can definetely win back our children's space. With this I remain. With warm regards, Chinnaa