TV ADVERTISING TODAY IS HARMFUL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN (DISAGREE)

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TV ADVERTISING TODAY IS HARMFUL FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

        Advertisements are now considered an essential tool to disseminate information and spread advertising opportunities to different group of people through print noticed and other electronic media such as via television (TV), radio, social media and others. it is unquestionable that advertising has become very much a part of modern life today.In almost everything we do, we are constantly bombarded by advertising. Its is hard to escape from the influence of advertisements. Teenagers and young adults are becoming easy prey as they are quite vulnerable to the advertisements that they exposed to. However, I strongly believe that today television does not effect young children's growth.  In fact, advertising has helped in their physical and mental development. Poor parenting is to blame and not advertisement itself whereby parents must train and educate children about healthy eating habits, smart consumerism ethics and product awareness.
       First and foremost, parents must educate their children on healthy eating habits. Poor parenting techniques are to blame for children's bad eating habits. Children's inclination to eating more junk food and fast food at regular interval has become a norm, even with their parent's consent.Television advertisements may have influence over children choice of food as they easily captivated by advertisements that promotes various food item that are usually detrimental to health as they contain colouring and ingredients  that can trigger health risk if over consumed. For instance, young children do not mind consuming burger stuffed with their favourite sausage and mayonnaise or thousand island cream. Despite, this influence has come from television advertisements captivated children to unhealthy food habits. This is especially, when children sit watch television all by themselves without monitor by their parents. This aggravates as they get to be easily influence by most of the advertisements they watch. Nevertheless, parents must not forget taht it is their duty to educate their children on healthy eating, healthy living and  practise a good eating habits by set good examples so that their children can emulate then from an early age and instil within themselves the important and awareness of consuming healthy food. They will then reap the harvest of enjoying a better quality of life by consumption of healthier and nutritious food. Healthy eating also mean healthy living ahead. Health is wealth.
        Secondly, parents should also educate their children on smart consumerism as this helps protect children from captivated in television advertisements. Advertisements have, in many ways, promoted products that seemingly assure healthy living condition. In reality, most product that are advertised have their own propaganda of capturing market pie with wide range of consumer products. Children, being children need to be taught how to optimize the value of money they spend. Parents must always involve their children when shopping and this will tremendously reinforce smart shopping and consumerism practices. One is to teach them to prepare a shopping list before actual shopping is done.   This will help reduce the tendency and probability of unnecessary purchases that may just burn a deep holes in one pocket. the temptation to put everything into the cart is always at play and being young and naive, children have the tendency of buying everything that please their eyes. although,at time they can be allowed to splurge on their food and toys, they should know that their have consumer rights to bargain for and receive quality products as advertised. Hence, equipping with necessary knowledge will keep them well informed and not being easy prey to unscrupulous business proprietors

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