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Violence within the media: internet, news, movies, music, video games, etc. can cause a
significant risk to the health, development and wellbeing of children and adolescence.
Research shows evidence that media violence contributes to physical and mental health
problems including aggressive and violent behavior, bullying, desensitization to violence,
depression, nightmares, sleep disturbance and fear of being harmed.
Pediatricians should assess their patients level of media exposure and to the extent of
what the child and/or adolescent is being exposed to advise the parents of media-related
health risks (media literacy and proactive use of media used by the child along with
parental responsibility).
American children between the ages of 8 and 18 years of age spend an average of 6 hours
and 21 minutes each day using media as a form of entertainment. Children between the
ages of 0 and 6 years of age spend an average of almost 2 hours each day using screen
media.
Increase of media also causes obesity and a double risk of becoming smokers. Children
start to become less active participating in fewer outdoor activities and perform poorer in
school.
Children influenced by media-observe, imitate, and adopt those behaviors they are
subject to affecting their attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and emotions.
Involve pediatricians, limit screen time, monitor screen time.
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It is virtually impossible to keep your child violence free due to how many media outlets
they are exposed to and how easily accessible they are.
Studies show that it is more common for preschool and school-aged children to imitate
violence rather than good behavior.
A study in New Zealand found that excessive exposure to television within children and
adolescence (more than 3 hours daily) increases the risk of criminal convictions and anti-
social behavior.
Parental guardians should be using controls to monitor media usage within the minor
child(ren), checking the content, look for violence alternatives, be aware, enforce balance
and watch for warning signs.
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Gun-related violence in schools has greatly increased In recent years with the earliest
known school shooting in 1764.
Many perpetrators suffered with mental health from early childhood and start acting
violent within their mid-teens.
Due to the accessibility of guns children/adolescence subjected by numerous social
media outlets causing a negative impact on their wellbeing are still able to obtain
firearms.
Educators along with parents need to acknowledge students who are potentially suffering
from a mental illness and offer support and resources.
Children subjected to an extensive amount of negative media platforms can obtain violent
characteristics which play a large role in causing their peers to feel grief, low self-esteem
and rejected by their aggressive behavior.
A child feeling grief, low-self-esteem and rejection then turns into a psychopath resulting
in most school shootings.
Enabling students to communicate their thoughts and concerns can help to prevent school
violence.
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Violent video game exposure is a large factor promoting violence within children and
adolescence.
Children are a product of their environment and easily influenced by what they are
allowed to be subjected to and/or not being supervised while gaining access to what they
are viewing on a daily.
Scientific consensus from the psychological, psychiatric, pediatric and medical
communities has been that exposure to violent entertainment media (including video
games) is a known casual risk factor for multiple types of aggressive behavior. Including
types of physical aggression.
The harm of violent entertainment media must be recognized and exposure must be
reduced to children and adolescents.
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Social media use affects social connectedness in terms of three elements of adolescent
development: sense of belonging, psychosocial wellbeing, and identity development and
processes.
Social media plays a role in fostering social connectedness whether positive or negative
psychological outcomes. This creates a source of alienation or popularity.
A child seen negatively on social media based on the views of societal social acceptance
can affect their behavior poorly causing them to being introverted or act impulsively by
becoming violent.
A child seen positively on social media based on the views of societal acceptance and
socially accepted can affect their behavior positively providing them with confidence
and/or negatively by performing activities to be accepted my social norms creating
potential violence and/or treating others in a less valuable way projecting them to act
violently.
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