Maybe you not know the unimaginable 'damage'
of television to children.
Unimaginable 'damage' of television
Talking about determinativeness from the
impressions receiving from outside world of newborn babies, the Australian
scholars on moveable comparison Lorenz quoted "Study of animals (including
human being), especially study at new-born time, is phenomenon called engraving
(record deeply into brain). For example, birds such as mallards, geese, ducks
(spices that have enough feathers since just out of the eggshells and can walk
on foot by themselves) have instinct to follow mobile objects in front of their
eyes when they have just be out of eggshells. For chicks, the first mobile
object is often hen. Follow hen
means safeness and survival of the chicks, so their action of following hen is
reasonable. Up to now, following
the mother of mallards, geese, ducks, and chickens has been explained as
instinctive action; however, it needs to be improved a little. Chicks or baby birds have just hatched will
follow the first mobile objects they see, even these objects are their mother
or not. That is engraving rule. For example, if the mobile object is a person,
chicks will follow him. If the
mobile object is a plastic chicken, chicks will also not find their real
mothers but follow that plastic chicken. The engraving rule is given by Lorenz has great meaning because it
is true for human being. Environment where children were born has TV
everywhere.
TV
has great influence for generating personality of children.
If letting one and half month old babies
hear by ears, see by eyes TV, they will engrave images and sound of TV
immediately. Therefore, they do
not react to real voice of their mother any longer; even mothers talk to them,
sing to them, babies do not respond any more. For such children, in 2-3 years
old, they often have expression of activities as follows:
1 - Do not Say. 2 - Do not look into
mothers’ eyes. 3 – Become too active, cannot sit. 4 - Like TV commercials,
advertising songs and sing follow these songs. 5 – Be hard to independent. Do
not do anything around them by themselves. 6 - Do not know what is dangerous. 7
- Like machines, remember quickly manipulations. 8 - Express some outgoing
knowledge.
Engraving TV into brain of children will
continue until they are 2 years old. For 2 year-old children who watch TV about
5-6 hours every day also tend to become children as mentioned above. Not letting
children watch TV are advised by many people because, in one-way dialogue,
children only hear and do not respond, so they will be slow to say.
Furthermore, we must know some more
dangerous things; they are danger of engraving. For children who do not have
any responses to real voice of mothers, how to treat? Let children hear
cassettes that repeat sentence "baby….baby…", and gradually they will
react when they are called like that, and make the way to help mothers and
babies talking together. By the way, we also learn the importance of engraving.
Watching
TV a lot is not good for children’s development.
To create perceptual stimulation for babies
For newborn babies, especially 1-year-old
babies, the more they are excited about intensive educational environment, the more nature of genius is absorbed. As
mentioned above, the closer to birth, the higher ability of keeping in mind
children have. However, if this magical ability does not meet good environment,
it will disappear so fast. Otherwise, if being in good environment, practiced
many times, this innate ability will form, and show up. This is a gift of
adapting environment which babies are given naturally. Because of these
abilities, no matter what society babies are born in, they still can get into
good natures and develop them. When
babies are from birth to one year old, most mothers can work while letting
their children hear music. This is
a big misunderstanding. Mothers can do many other things. If abandoning
children in the period of 0-1 year old, and starting stimulating education for
them from two to three years old, the results will have very large difference.
In 0-1 year old period, if you create more experiences for children, the
qualities of the children will reach great levels.
For
newborn babies, especially 1-year-old babies, the more they are excited about
intensive educational environment, the more nature of genius is absorbed
0-1 year old is the most important period
of education to create perceptual stimulation for children. These are
opportunities to develop their perception. You must create stimulations as much
as possible.
When babies have just been born, through
their five senses, they learn and know about the world around them, and their
ability of adapting with around environment grows rapidly. The first is through
the five senses to see, hear, touch, smell, taste. At that time, if there are
some toys around them, their five senses are also supported to develop more.
Moreover, contacting with adults who have many experiences every day is also
top of perceptual stimulation.
