Week 4 Discussion Topic Media Messages Do They Help or Hinder Development? Many

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Week 4 Discussion Topic Media Messages Do They Help or Hinder Development? Many theorists believe that the acquisition of emotional intelligence and moral thinking and/or behaviors are heavily influenced by media portrayals of appropriate" behaviors. Prior to your participation in this discussions watch an episode of a TV show that is aimed at those children in middle childhood including those shows aimed at tweens (ages 7 to 12). A good source for these shows would be Teen Nick and certain shows on Nickelodeon and Disney. If you do not have access to these channels you can access full episodes from the ikln network at htp/www.nick.com videosill-videos/tabal-ul- episodes After viewing this episode answer the following questions: What TV show did you watch? What emotional or moral issues were presented? . How did the characters respond? Where the responses and/or consequences realistic? . Based on your reading this week what effect on emotional and moral development do you feel that today's TV shows and movies have on our older children and tweens? What guidelines would you provide to parents whose children fall in the age range of 7 to 12 on media exposure?

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Noddy. In the episode: Noddy and Martha Monkey, the moral issue presented in this episode is a ‘friend in need is a friend indeed’. The characters responded normally where, Martha the monkey is a person who is jolly in behavior and keeps mocking noddy, but does so with good intent. Noddy doesn’t like her and behaves rudely with her. On the other hand, when required she comes all the way down to help him with a lost tyre. This is a normal behaviour. And noddy was happy about it and obliged for Martha the monkey, allowing her to sit in his car. The older tv shows and movies were more inclined towards sending across messages in the form of movies and were more concentrated in spreading across more positive messages. The children shows appeared to be very simple and way more easier to understand. There was less violence and less negative as compared to shows like shinchan. Regarding media exposure, parents need to take care that the media that the children are exposed to should be such which increase the positive affect of the child keeping them away from negativity and wrong messages.

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