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The Comparison Between Watching TV and Reading Books
In our daily life, Watching TV and reading books has become the mainly way for children to get varies messages about the world by themselves .The two ways both can make an influence on the growth of children. In this essay, I’d like to make a comparison of the influence on children between watching TV and reading books .By comparison, we can see the similarities and differences between the two ways and know the importance of reading books. Watching TV and reading books has something similar about the influence on children. First of all, both of them are valuable to children to open up their eyes to the world. In addition, children can also enjoy themselves from watching interesting program and reading meaningful story books. Finally, children usually talk with friends using the topics that get from watching TV and reading books.
Despite these similarities, watching TV and reading books has some very significant differences. One important difference is that watching TV is easier to make children damage in it than reading books. With the colorful program, children maybe waste lots of time on it which leads them to a shortage of communicating with family and friends. While reading books may seldom results in the question like that.
Another difference is that reading books can impel children to deliberate and image more than watching TV. Reading books need children to think and image what the authors want to tell them by themselves. By comparison, the programs on TV usually have been edited by others so that children need not to think more about them. Base on the comparison, we can see that reading books is more useful for children to develop the abilities of understanding and imagination than watching TV. The final and most important difference is that children need to pay more attentions on reading books than watching TV for a better understanding. In addition, watching TV often breaks children’s attention every twenty minutes by the advertizements. By comparison, children can read books in a world of their own as long as they want.
It is clear that although there are some similarities between watching TV and reading books, reading books is more important than watching TV. So we should urge children to pay more time on reading books than watching TV.