Guest Post: Eight Ifs and Buts of Your Kids Watching Cartoon Videos during Exams by Celina Jones

Exam periods are extremely difficult for children. It is hard to find the balance between studying too much and not studying enough. After all, if children study too much then it can actually have the opposite effect – causing them to wear themselves out and become too stressed. However, there are some children who simply do not study at all and thus need a big push in order to do so. As a parent, it is your job to try and find the balance between the two.

One big problem area when it comes to exam period is how much entertainment time you should allow your child to enjoy. A lot of children want to sit and watch cartoon videos when they come in from school, such as cartoon network video. Should this be allowed? Take a look at the eight ifs and buts below in order to help you make your decision for your kids:

1. If children watch videos then they are wasting study time

This first point is the most obvious. If your child is watching cartoons then they are spending time that could be spent on studying. Every hour wasted is an hour which could be spent preparing for the examination they have ahead.

2. But a break now and again is healthy

However, your child cannot study every hour of the day. A break is healthy and it is needed in order to clear your child’s mind. After all, it is believed that after a certain time period – even something as small as 40 minutes– your child loses focus and cannot study anymore. Therefore, using a cartoon network video as a break option is a good idea.

3. If they watch videos then they lose focus

If your child watches too many cartoons then their mind will be filled with this rather than the exam that they have ahead. If your child loses their focus too much then all of the studying they will do will become lost within all of the cartoons that they have watched.

4. But if they don’t have fun then they can become too stressed

Nevertheless, if all that your child thinks about is; study, study and more study, then they are going to be filled with a great deal of worry and stress. This is not healthy and they will panic far too much. It is likely your child will be nervous anyway, and thus it is important to limit these nerves as much as possible.

5. If they watch cartoons then you will find it hard to pry them away

However, we all know that once your child starts watching cartoons it can be very difficult to pry them away from the television. Therefore one hour watching television may turn into a lot longer.

6. But if you don’t let them have fun then they have nothing to work towards

You can actually use cartoons to your advantage. If your child studies for an hour then you can allow them to have cartoon time afterwards. This gives them something to work towards and thus is likely to make them study harder.

7. If they watch cartoons and fail then you will blame too much fun time as  a factor

If your child fails their exams and you know they have spent a lot of their time watching cartoons then you are likely to blame this for their failure and thus will regret letting them watch so much television.

8. But if you don’t allow them to watch cartoons you are punishing them before the exams have started

However, if you don’t let your child watch cartoons then you are almost telling them off before they have even done anything.

Watching television help us to learn about facts we would not or else have well-read about. In the course of the television, we could learn about far-flung lands and their existing issues, and let in information in regards to science as well as culture.

First of all, the age gap between adolescents might be considered as one of the foremost factors that manipulates the level of educational benefits from watching television. Yet, some other researches claims that attention problems during exam as well as other time (for instance daydreams or distractive a lot) might overpower children when they are exposed in front of television at an early age or less than 3 years of age.

If we keep aside the reason of exams, too much television for kids is harmful in many other ways too. Millions of parents are keeping their children at risk of cancer because they allow them spend too much time sitting back either on television, playing computer games or surfing through Internet.

Doctors in the present day have delivered a stark warning saying it is found that a generation of teens is also in a risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease because of their desk bound lifestyles.

In fact, kids who do work out on a regular basis are also at a high risk because of long hours of immobility that leads to obesity.