Unplugging America

If we unplugged our televisions, I think our world would be a more sociable and lively place.  Children, these days, are more likely to stay inside, sit on a couch and watch television.  Why is that?!  Children have been influenced from a very early age by not only their parents but any older siblings or other people surrounding them. Everyone who allows them to experience a little TV is just enforcing the problem.  And if this becomes an ongoing event, the children soon become dependent upon TV, because they don’t know of any other form of entertainment.  Video games have become the biggest issue in little children today.  Children should be introduced to video games only after a certain age, to establish a ground of social education.  I have first hand experience with children that have been introduced to video games at an early age and those who have not.  My brother is a prime example, after our family got an xbox for christmas, that was the only thing he WOULD do.  After a while the childish games my parents would allow him to play got boring, he began to go outside a little more and actually get involved with school sports. But then, my parents finally cracked and allowed him play the more violent games, such as: Halo and Call of Duty.  After that he reverted back to a regular couch-potato, every day after school the first thing he’d do was sit down and turn the game on.  I feel like video games and television also effect the attitudes of young minds, after my brother was allowed to play these games, his temper has become out of control.  He often found screaming, yelling, and breaking household items.  So personally I would find great pleasure out of completely shutting people out of the digital world and force them to actually make contact with other people.