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Hi, my name is Donncha Fahy and I live in Ireland.
Im doing a project at the moment concerning the effects of television on young children and part of my project is a survey.
It would be great if you parents could answer the few short questions below. All I want are very short answers like simply Yes or No, because if the answers are too long I wont be able to put them together and get some statistics.
Anyway here are the questions:
1. How many hours of TV a day, on average, do your children watch?



2. Does it affect their social life?



3. Does TV stop them from getting enough exercise?



4. Do you think they watch programs with unsuitable content?



5. If so, do you mind, or do you do anything about it?



6. Do you encourage them not to watch TV?



7. And finally, overall, weighing up the pros and the cons, do you think TV has a good or bad influence on your children.

So remember, short, one word answers please. Thanks a million. Gauri Khan replied. Hi Donncha,

Try to answer to your qust
1.My child spends around three hrs watching TV
2. Yes in someways it has an impact on their social behaviour
3.Not really, they get enough exercise thru out the day
4.Sometimes if u do not monitor their viewing
5.I intend to monitor from time to time or put lock system on certain channels
6.NO
7.Somewhat good


ashika replied. 1 we spend around three hours. 2 No it does not affect our social life 3 we do monitor what our children watch on tv, but a lock system is not worth it. That would mean lack of confidence in the kids. I would rather want my children to judge the good and bad influences of TV. And that will happen only with the pasage of time.