The Influence of cartoons

Cartoon is either a drawing that shows the characteristics and features of its subjects or a film that is made on animation based techniques that depicts a story. Cartoons are an integral part of every childhood. During the last decades children used to watch cartoons on Television but, Nowadays mobile phones and tabs are more in due to which watching hours have extensively increased.

Cartoons are not mirrors for real life but they show an imaginary life which can affect the kids in different ways.”The Influence of Cartoons” has pros and cons.

Cartoons develop skills:

Watching cartoons can be an entertaining way through which children can learn good accents and their vocabulary learning abilities could be increased.One can learn from their native language and expressions because social interactions are basic themes of kids cartoons.

Cartoons can also help children in developing problem solving skills like “Young Turtles Topsy”.Watching such sort of cartoons build exceptional abilities in children and let their mind work actively.

Cartoons teach life lessons:

There are certain cartoons that teach us lessons that could be small but stay in mind for a lifetime.Like, “Tom & Jerry” teaches not to underrate our enemy, “SpongeBob SquarePants” teaches to just be good to others ,no matter how bad our day is, “Dragon Tales” teaches to help others in solving their problems and work through the challenges of growing up, “Scooby Doo” teaches that the villains in our lives are not unknown but that people whom we know & trust.

Cartoons help to overcome and reduce stress:

As cartoons are related to childhood memories, by watching an old cartoon,it can bring up the emotions that are connected with happiness and give a reminder to blow away the anxieties and worries.Cartoons are actually a good way to reduce stress and cope with mental health issues.

Cartoons affect behavior:

Watching cartoons also has negative impacts on social behavior of children.According to a research children watch cartoons for fun 41%,action 23% and learning 17%.These results show that children who are habitual of watching cartoon, show high level of language accretion and intellectual development respect for elders and promote teamworks but they also show antagonistic and hostile behavior towards their siblings and friends and can also adopt the abusive language.There are also physiological impacts of cartoons on the children

Cartoons addict children:

When children spend more time watching cartoons,they get swayed by the content shown in cartoons, this is because children learn through imitation and develop certain actions in real life by observing the things they watch in cartoons.Presently, Children are becoming addicted to cartoons.

Conclusion:

Playing with kids and involving them in drawing or crafts of their interest so that they will not urge to watch cartoons for hours.Always keep a check on the content of cartoons kids are watching on TV and also fix the timings for kids so that they don't watch cartoons for hours.