As a counselor and life coach I have always taken a strong stand against having a television or computer in any child or teens’ bedroom, period. Yes, we used this rule in our own home. We had objections at times and that’s alright. It didn’t turn our actions.

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My rationale is two fold. First, I see the communal isolation, decrease in social/emotional skills, decrease in peer interaction and increase disrespect of authority from children and teens who have electronics in their bedrooms.

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Having optical electronics in kids’ bedrooms decreases the whole of time families spend together, increases the risk of early exposure to pornography and children acting out sexually, decreases the whole of house dinners, and decreases the whole of communal play time with other young people. The negative impact of this is apparent in school as well. These children have a shorter concentration span, more often want to get their way, have lower than median communal skills and often feel socially isolated.

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The second reason, is knowing a thing or two about brain development, I knew that Tv and computer use does not tap into the normal brain amelioration and brain stimulation needed to make our young population wholesome and happy. Now we have plentifulness of study to back that up.

Let’s look at the summary of study from Joseph Chilton Pearce who is a scholar, scientist and teacher. He states: “First, if you want intelligent, thriving and wholesome children they must have unavoidable emotional experiences. This starts in the home straight through unconditional love, appropriate loving touch and a safe, derive environment. Then it extends into our studying environments. If you want true learning, studying that involves the higher frontal lobes…the intellectual creative brain…the emotional environment must be unavoidable and supportive. The first sign of anxiety the brain shifts its functions from the high, prefrontal lobes to the old defenses of the reptilian brain.” To put it simply: In order to have a higher functioning child we need to sustain head and heart. The heart and brain present with one someone else in an intricate symphony of ganglia cells, neural networks and neurotransmitters.

Pearce talks about the harmful effects of television and computers on growing brains regardless of content. “Television certainly prevents neural increase in the developing brains of children. When young children watch too much, it suppresses the capacity of their brains to compose imagination.” This has to do with the way that the brain reacts to radiant light. Children’s brains “shut down” (stop the reasoning process).

The television manufactures has countered this by introducing “startle effects” into children’s programming. This triggers the brain into reasoning there might be an crisis and alerts the brain to pay extra attention. This is ended by dramatic changes in the intensity of light, sound and rapid shifting camera angles. Agreeing to Pearce “Every 10 years the Tv manufactures ups the ante by making the startles bigger, there are now an median of 16 bits of violence every half hour in children’s cartoons. The moment the heart receives any indication of negativity or danger it drops out of its usual harmonic mode into an incoherent one, triggering the release of the singular most potent hormone in the human body, known as cortisol. Cortisol at once wakes up the brain and causes it to produce trillions of neural links in order to ready the individual to face the emergency.”

Computer monitors have a similar ensue due to the radiant light. Researchers’ assigned students to 3 groups where the same data was presented on a fourth grade reading level in 3 separate mediums. Group A had a regular piece of paper; Group B was shown a movie with the page; Group C viewed a computer monitor. Students were then tested for retention of the information.

Group A averaged 85% retention after viewing a paper; Group B averaged 25% – 30% retention after viewing a movie screen; Group C averaged 3% – 5% retention after viewing a computer monitor. “Computers & television are changing our children’s brains. We must encourage our children to compose the capability to think first and then give them a computer. Pearce sites Piaget’s developmental study ” The first twelve years of life are spent putting into place the structures of knowledge that enable young population to grasp abstract, metaphoric, symbolic types of information…the danger is that the computer and television will interrupt that development.”

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