TOEFL independent writing (Watching television is bad for children.) Watching TV is a kind of addiction! Nowadays, the fact that children watching for so long TV is one of the most important issues for today’s modern society. It’s the subject of intense debate and this is a question that certainly does not have one correct answer. However, I’m of the point of view that children should not watching TV, because it’s really kind of addiction and also distract them from study. First and foremost, as we know addicting is really harmful for our life. For example, addicted to cigarette or alcohol harmful for our health, also addicting to watching TV leads to forget about anything and any jobs. If children start watching some cartoons, it will be impossible take away them from TV. Besides that, there are several cartoons that have a bad affect on them such as bad attitude. But even though there are different kind of educational TV show, children prefer watching cartoons, so it make a big problem. What I’m trying to say is watching TV could be positive too, but children don’t want to watch such TV shows where teach them. Actually, they want to be free from studying at home and just relax and have fun. Moreover, watching TV distracting children from studying. Actually they just dragging their feet and say I will study later, but this “later” comes so late and they spend so long in front of TV. Of course, I believe that they would like to rest of studying, but I would recommend them to do some sport or playing games. By doing sport our brain gets fresh and our productivity grow up. Whereas, watching cartoon cannot teach us somethings new and useful. For example, if children watching their favorite cartoon, they will worry about hero of the cartoon and it would lead them to be sad if something happened with their favorite hero during the day, and sometimes it just won’t let them concentrate on their studying. My own experience is a good example here. I remember I was 7 years old and really liked watching cartoon. Actually, it had a bad affect on my studying and finally my mother didn’t let me watch cartoon for so long. Now I’m thankful my mom that she encourage me study and only with her helps I attend university and I study pretty good. In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that watching TV cannot be bad all the time, we just should sometimes control our children and encourage them watching good TV shows which are more helpful and avoid them from cartoons which have a bad affect on them.