A very high percentage of advertisement on television are aimed at children. What effects can television advertising have on children? Should television advertising for children be controlled?

Majority of time, youngsters are targeted by different electronic media such as television. A huge number of propaganda techniques are use in advertisements to persuade adolescent that results in developing unhealthy habits and demanding for unnecessary gadgets. Although it is difficult to ban all ads, it must be controlled. Nowadays, persuasive languages and attractive images are used to persuade the children. To start off with, television advertisement can be detrimental for young due to the fact that it may lead them to unhealthy habits. In other words, children are so impressionable and by watching ads such as of junk food, they can start to eat that may cause disease like obesity, later on body shaming can lead to mental problem as well. As an evidence, a child who get more exposure to screen knows about a numerous item of fast food and enhale it as well. Another point is, youngsters can give trouble to their parents by demanding for everything they see on television. That is to say, children become addicted to those things that are shown on television, consequently started to ask for those things to their parents. phones, for instance, are oftenly illustrated in advertisement and when teenagers saw, they compel their guardian to purchase it for them. Even though children get information about some necessary things from ads, it is extremely essential to show only those ads which will not harm the young. That means, legislation is needed even in what kind of advertisement can be shown so that there will be less chance of adapting bad habits by youngsters. For example, if the ads will be about education, sports, music, that will assist children to develop it as their hobby can be beneficial. Moreover, there must be provision for confirmation of advertisement which are concerned to children. In other words, guardian will be no not worried about what their children are watching and whether it will harm them or not. As an example, if all ads are investigated by law makers than parents will be relaxed. To sum up, however children get some insight from advertisement but in the meantime they can develop bad habits and might give trouble to their parents. Advertisement which target youngsters must be controlled so that parents can be less worried about their children.