As a parent have you ever wondered if the media has an effect on your child's behavior? The media can have a greater influence on a child's life than that of a parent. Many parents do not see how the media, especially television programs, television commercials, and video games, can influence their children's behavior. The truth is that the media plays a huge role in the lives of your young people. The media can influence everything from behavior, musical taste and physical appearance. All of these aspects are influenced by the media and can determine whether a child will grow up to be a productive individual or a dangerous individual to himself and others around him. The popular saying “Monkey see, monkey do” may be true when it comes to the things many children see in the media as they try to imitate them. The media has a lot of good and bad content, but it is up to parents to determine what and how much content their children will experience. Parents are the most important people who are capable enough to prevent and prevent media from influencing their children's lives. The media's easy access to the public has created a bigger problem. We live in a world completely surrounded and invented by the media. Everywhere you look, there is a possibility that the media is involved. Everything from the color of the inside of a supermarket to the music played in public toilets. They were all designed and established to have an influence in your life. If the media can have such a huge impact on an adult's life, imagine the influence it has on a child's life and behavior. Multimedia content can be viewed virtually anywhere. Children are particularly vulnerable because they may not be aware that what they see is harmful to them. It is true that many children and adolescents...... are middle of paper ......d by the media in both negative and positive ways, but it is the job of parents to determine how their children will be affected. Parents are the only ones who can prevent the media from influencing their children. This can be a very difficult task because in our modern culture many parents rely on television as a babysitter or distraction for their children. Parents should try to limit the amount of time children spend watching television and browsing the Internet. Parents add restrictions on the content their children can access both on the Internet and on television. However, the best way to prevent the media from influencing children in a negative way is to teach them the consequences of their actions and the differences between fiction and reality. Let's turn negative media into something beneficial for our youth.