Children today are being exposed to too much violence on television.   Programs shown on TV these days are full of characters trying to be heroes by resorting to violence. Children on an average watch about 3-4 hours of TV everyday and are exposed to all sorts of fighting tactics and moves. Continued exposure to such programs makes the children resort to violence in their everyday lives, for they are made to feel as if violence is the best way to resolve an issue.

Violence is considered exciting and entertaining by most people. Inspite of knowing the effect of TV programs which contain violence on children, people still want to watch them. Lesser people now want to watch morally correct but slow shows on TV. Fast paced action-packed shows containing violent scenes is the order of the day. Some people even claim that TV violence has no negative impact on the child. This is, in fact, not true as children exposed to too much TV violence are found to be more aggressive and violent in nature themselves. They sometimes even try and imitate their action heroes and act as they would have in a TV program.

Academically, as well it has a negative impact on children, as they start getting the feeling that studies are not as important to them; it would be easier to push their way around instead.

Parents can play an extremely vital role in ensuring that their children see the right programs on TV and not the ones that send out wrong messages to them. Since this is not a full proof solution to this problem as in this day it is impossible to completely shut violence out of our lives, it becomes the parents’ duty to discuss with their children the virtues of non-violence and how violence is not the right solution to any problem.