Originality and creativity is gradually destroyed. Children watch TV in preference to listening to a story, to playing a game. or to helping around the home. Due to our modern lifestyle children are no longer provided with the examples from adults to enable them to play creatively. Thus they depend more on television viewing to entertain and amuse. They are interacting less with humans, more with instruments of technology.
Parents rely on TV to keep children out of trouble.
Children thus miss opportunities to learn how to socialise, how to solve problems, how to talk about themselves and their feelings. Childrens programs are often the most violent ones. This may have a deep influence on the child who is missing out on real life experience and may cause anti-social behaviour. Little children cannot distinguish commercials from the programs. Why should a loving and caring parent invite fear, terror or sadness into a child's life, when it is so easy to protect them.