Can children watch cartoons? Is watching cartoons beneficial for children? Many parents argue over whether their children can watch cartoons. I believe this is a problem that has long troubled many families.
In our impression, children must not watch cartoons, as watching cartoons is definitely not good for children. In fact, many animated films nowadays have certain educational significance. So, watching cartoons appropriately is still beneficial for children. What are the specific benefits of watching cartoons? Let's take a look together.
1. Educational significance
We usually believe that reading books is beneficial for children, so we like to let them read books or listen to stories. However, reading too many books can make children feel bored, while audio without video can make children easily bored after listening for a long time. Some animated films have educational significance and are very suitable for children to watch. Most children are focused when watching cartoons, which allows them to better absorb the content. Watching cartoons has a much higher educational effect than reading books or listening to stories. Therefore, it is recommended that parents show their children some educational cartoons.
When selecting cartoons for their children, parents can review them in advance and choose some educational ones to show them, which can help children learn a lot from excellent cartoons. For example, good behavior habits, unique personality, and excellent interpersonal skills. For example, "Clever Tiger" is a very worthwhile animated film, which mainly teaches children how to develop good living habits and some safety knowledge, providing good guidance for babies' daily lives.
In addition, when children watch cartoons, they often fall in love with a certain cartoon character and are particularly eager to become that character, so they will imitate their action language and dress up. For example, boys all hope to be Ultraman, Superman, and girls all hope to be princesses, Barbie dolls. This is actually a great opportunity to educate children, as parents can use these characters to transmit some positive energy to their children.
2. Soothing emotions
Nowadays, parents are busy with work and have little time to spend with their children, so the children are very lonely. Over time, it is easy to feel irritable due to being isolated. At this time, parents can choose some warm cartoons to show their children, soothe their emotions, and calm them down.
3. Enhance language learning ability
Perhaps some parents overlook that watching cartoons can actually help babies learn language skills. Children are already able to receive language stimuli during infancy. And in early childhood, one begins to develop language learning abilities. By imitating the language of cartoon characters, children can improve their language abilities faster. Some babies are introverted and don't like to talk, so they can watch more cartoons to learn language skills. For example, "Teletubbies" are very suitable for babies who just want to talk. Antenna babies have a slow speaking speed, which makes it very easy for infants and young children to learn and accept.
So, watching cartoons appropriately for children still has some benefits. When children watch cartoons, parents should pay attention to selecting some positive cartoons for them. In addition, we also need to control the time when children watch cartoons, and not let them watch for too long, so as not to harm their eyes and affect their sleep schedule. Finally, we would like to remind you that children under 3 years old are not recommended to watch computer TV for a long time, as the screen of computer TV can cause damage to the baby's eye mask.
