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General => Moderated General Discussion => Topic started by: LiveFreeorDie on September 27, 2017, 06:24:20 PM
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Kids are captivated by the sounds and sights of what's playing on the television screen.
They can spend hours fixated on it, forgetting everything else. During that time, they are generally quiet and stationary, not whining, fighting, asking questions, climbing, fidgeting, making messes, damaging things, or otherwise requiring parental intervention.
But is it good for children?
Here are some basic ways that excessive screen time does not promote healthy development in children:
1. Sedentary children are not moving their growing muscles and bones, which is required for normal development. Obesity is affecting vast numbers of children before they are old enough to be making their own choices in food, drink, and exercise. In other words, it's parental-induced obesity, and too much couch potato behavior is adding to the problem.
2. Children are born with natural curiosity about the world and the people, animals, plants, and objects in their environment. Everything is pulled, pushed, squeezed, dropped, tasted, and shaken, to see how these things behave. That is normal behavior. When children are placed in front of screens too much, that natural curiosity and desire to explore begins to diminish. The screen becomes addictive. Everything else becomes "boring."
3. Because children learn to be sedentary and receive continual stimulation and input from movement and sounds on the television with no effort, movement, on involvement on their part, in addition to everything else becoming "boring," they also become very passive and lazy. Tasks or chores like cleaning their room or putting their shoes away become arduous. Creativity and inventiveness are stifled in the child who is accustomed to continual exciting input with no output. Creative play, which has long been a childhood staple, is stunted, and children become dependent on someone else to tell them what to do in order to not be bored. Children should not even know how to get bored. Pre-TV, healthy children created their own play and didn't know the meaning of the word "boredom."
4. Some parents think that "educational" TV programs intended for children are actually helping children. Research does not line up with these beliefs. Especially "Baby Einstein" geared towards young babies has shown detrimental effects including delayed language development. The findings in research led the American Academy of Pediatrics to recommend that no child under the age of 2 should watch any television.
5. Screen time removes time to connect with children. Children have many, many questions, and one of their needs is to have a secure attachment to a parent or consistent caregiver who is loving, responsive and engages with them. Screen time hampers time to connect and build the key relationship between parent and child during the critical formative years. There is a relatively small window to influence and teach children before they grow up and move along to start their own life when you remove sleeping and school hours that it's important to make the most of the time you do have to bond and interact with your children.
6. The more TV children watch, the shorter of an attention span they have later in life. (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/4/708 (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/4/708) by Dr. Dimitri Christakis et al., University of Washington)
7. Violent content has a negative effect on children. (http://www.apa.org/about/gr/pi/advocacy/2008/kunkel-tv.aspx, (http://www.apa.org/about/gr/pi/advocacy/2008/kunkel-tv.aspx,) Dr. Dale Kunkel)
They can have chemical changes in the brain similar to what is seen with post-traumatic stress disorder. Children have difficulty diffrentiating between real violence and pretend violence. Children exposed to violence become less empathetic and more aggressive, have more fear and less patience, more unwilling to cooperate with others and less able to handle frustration without having outbursts. Children habituated to violence on screen are more likely to become violent as teenagers and have more interactions with the law.
8. Sexual content has a negative effect on children. Children who are exposed to sexual content are more likely to become sexual at earlier ages when they are not mature enough to understand the potentially lifelong consequences of their actions. Children are increasingly being sexualized at younger and younger ages, to their great harm and detriment. (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-healing/201208/overexposed-and-under-prepared-the-effects-early-exposure-sexual-content, (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-healing/201208/overexposed-and-under-prepared-the-effects-early-exposure-sexual-content,) http://www.health.state.mn.us/injury/docs/Normalization_of_Sexual_Harm_Fact_Sheet.pdf (http://www.health.state.mn.us/injury/docs/Normalization_of_Sexual_Harm_Fact_Sheet.pdf))
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You make some good points, but I have to say, I have been a gamer since I was a child and I am a successful, happy, physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy human being :thumbsup:
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Smash all screens
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yeah...then what socialize at the bar that fuging sucks.
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im gonna say they way you are when your younger, is the way you are when your older unless some brain trauma happens..
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sure theres healthy things to do..but for example my dear cousin...
tv show comes on like walker texas ranger...he will stare at it and zone out..we used to just yell at him and he wouldnt pop out.
the other trait ..he lies and cant help it when there is no reason to lie...still to this day he does the same thing..but he reproduced and now is your sterotypical redneck.. fyuck me wheres my beer
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i doubt anything woulda changed him into a einstien ..gone from this forum no modify :P i cant think of shit all at once ;D
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im pretty sure now that i am older,my dam teachers thought to some of us ..well this one is going to jail.
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the answer theyll just be outside playing with rocks..
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but they need to find thier cutie mark "talent" ok im gone
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unless u want to count in all the children including special ed..just tough luck?
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anyone that hurts how kids behave ..im gonna beat the fuck out of them even christ jessu
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bu he already said you got a rope around you neck and thrown into the sea..hes pretty cool
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and thats actually better than what he has instored
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so really ater this u meet what everyone has turned into jessu not a suprise at all
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yamon can keep his 25$ card
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trying to make autism kids make ya feel better ?
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you are the the only one for you welcome to matured adulthood
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Crazy Town- Butterfly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYNjn1gohM#)
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no modify god damn when i party i see a 410 and a sks
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:o wrong music section
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we all armed as fuck jessu suprise
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Crazy Town- Butterfly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYNjn1gohM#) hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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oh wait none cares see ya later
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your like 20 years to eminem and kid rock 40 to jimi hendrix and jim morrison ..50 led zep rolling stones beatles no prospectives
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noone gives a fuck about your shit good riddings and your pushing a cd rom dos game lol
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omg bois doo whop is the best music ever a 70 year old
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Crazy Town- Butterfly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYNjn1gohM#)
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it was 60 years ago jimi wasnt alive
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well really jessu they thought they could take advantage but really not understand
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To Hell With The NFL preproduction Director ( Phil Thomas ) cut - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyLQiRbLKGE#) ucle phil!!!!!!!!!!!!
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https://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/church_of_satan-emblem1.jpg
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that was a drill sargent who wrote songs for johny paycheck..me im statan i give a fuck if you make it
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how much i give a fuck i dont play so long jessu from 2008
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it really goes back to baby sharks your just played vid games..so the vid games on you bae im fixing to crank up teh elvis we got gatheirs comon on later
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you want to put on easy all your probs??youcant cause you dont own as much as me
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thats true sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry
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gtet the fuck out of my shit i wanna see jehovas power
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that name is weak fell flat on his ass i am to scared of it
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ya made it up but no really i used to ru around my church im teh one that invited my mom back
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Thank god you only drink beer ez
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i worshiped the same god jesus did get the fuck outta my shit
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:o i forgot your admin!!!!!
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I think you forgot your in the moderated section. Lol
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whats wrong with jehova ...if you want to know
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well maybe so but murfressboro when they are fucing cusins its like awesome video games
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Awesome Video Games - Episode 17 - Gyromite pt.5 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etgk-kIOe44#)
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well really kinda sucks no beer good bye
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bad ass song godd damn
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negative before acting so special my bf's can play that bull shit
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go get fucked sorrya yall couldnt make personalities
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i give a shit less dude gone get a beer baadass lick though
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i need to ask whats his fucking face before i make songs..cant remeber his name fucke me
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hate me and dave tv gettin another beer
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greed is coming to you tora u dont even belive it yet my dick has been sucked from online bitches quit a bit
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the demon you are is coming im gonna wright him by name
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zoso god damn is all i can say
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really dick u better have land be playing games on noone gives a fuck about ya
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well shit you got me tora idk how the hell be sane all the time checkmate
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fuck whats his face yamon take ya 25$ and shove it right up your ass
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Oh my. Easycompany is clearly a victim of excessive childhood screen time. 55 posts...of nonsense. Poor thing. :/
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negative i got girls and boys but they dont want vid games
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inherited dementia from my other granny but o well ..we got to wait till where 60 for we compare notes
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if ya want to get to the nut cutting ..u can have screen time and own shit everyone trying fit that society aint they..that girl lives in a trailor park i live on 1,000s of acres
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its like jessu house over 100,000 i can tell by the work of it..whose the greater
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u need to follow your rule now make babies!
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greatful to tora for removing lol
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8o easy are you scared brrrr no ive already cussed out all my horndog freinds
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hurt me deep Lil Wayne - Everything (Official Dirty Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgnxBRGoeg#)
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Travis Tritt - Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) [It's All About To Change] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3QD8yLlAfs#) ronnie !!!!!!!
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ive actually slapped my dic k int jason garrison and patrick bunch face the rest of my 1999 freinds are dead or drunks
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:o you dont see josh mccaleb anymore im a cold motherfucker
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thats my 1st cousin his dad died in 2013 and im never seeing him againg
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im sorry jessu we got a back yard they dont t have this
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Candlebox-Far Behind - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QL0L9fgbg#)
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u can go fuck yourself baby shark i dont wanna fuck your ugly ass anyhow
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im actually a yahoo pool player The Fat Boys - All You Can Eat (1985) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drGeLouMm6s#)
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i the mpq u can give all units 9 visinon...unit .dat
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im really soory you played the game i quit in 2008
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baby joel olsteen loves you
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https://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/church_of_satan-emblem1.jpg that is t worse as olsteen
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sorry i like singing to satan u can have bullshit jehoava alllah they can even figure that out.go gett fucked
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not real see ya later
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The Lion King - Circle Of Life - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4efZIHtiQQ#) :blank: :blank:
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Nintendo Entertainment System! - Awesome Video Games - Episode 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Vh--awqmQ#) yayyyyyyy
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EZ im worried about you man.
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Thank god you only drink beer ez
Isn't this ban worthy?
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prob i knew i wouldnt make it ;D
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holy shit fatboys dam sub hell yeah good tune!