The American Academy of Pediatrics And Their Facts

The topic of violent cartoons is significantly popular among academic journal articles, or research papers. For example The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published at their website a summary why TV violence matters, and what should parents do in order to protect their children.

            According to AAP, by watching 3 to 4 hours of non-educational TV per day, children will have seen about 8,000 murders on TV by the time they finish elementary school. They

also recommend to parents to limit the TV use of their children on 1 or maximum 2 hours per day.

            Another issue that this short article is looking at is that in such cartoons videos, characters are usually solving their problems with violence; thus, child can easily learn to solve its problem with violence also.  And especially young children that are still in developing stage need to learn to solve their problem with nonviolent way.

            However, this is not the only behavior they can learn from TV cartoons. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, through such programming children learn to fight, become victims, and encourage friend to fight because it is fun to watch.

             So, if you have a child, or sibling – you better be careful what s/he is watching, because TV is the greatest friend for each kid, but in the same time their biggest enemy. 


Reference:

American Academy of Pediatrics. "Pulling the Plug on TV Violence." HealthyChildren.org. 11 May 2013. Web. 12 May 2013. <http://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/Pulling-the-Plug-on-TV-Violence.aspx>.