Children's lives revolve around television more and more these days. Accordin

The period between first and fifth grade are essential to the development of young children. Because the adolescent mind grows and changes the most in this period, a child's grasp on reality is not firm, which causes a child's perceptions to rule its judgment ("Stages). Psychologists believe that children's perception of reality can be affected in three major ways by excessive violence: they may become desensitized to the world around them, they may fear the world around them because of a belief that violence exists in the real world as it does on television, and children are more likely to act aggressively towards others ("Children"). This aggression is due to a desensitizing of pain and violence. The child constantly sees character's die, and soon the child becomes so used to these scenes that the thought of committing an act of aggression or violence looses its power as being considered "bad" ("Children"). Psychologist

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