Parents can teach children more about nutrition and steer them toward a healthy, balanced diet. Watching TV, children form ideas about how they should look, but not everyone can be healthy and as tall, as thin or as muscular as the people on television. The media images of women have been linked with eating disorders in teenage girls. Parents can help children to recognize that healthy bodies come in a wide range of shapes, sizes and colours. When children watch a lot of violence, they come to believe that the world is a scary, violent place.
Some children become frightened.
Some begin to think that violence is a normal and effective way to handle problems. And children who watch a lot of violent television may shout, bully, pretend to fight and fight more than other children. Children under the age of 7 or 8 are more likely to imitate the fighting moves they see on the screen than older kids. As parents, we are in the best position to decide how much television is right for our own children. If you scored 4 or more, then television is probably interfering with your lives.