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Children being less active 
Nowadays children watch much more television than they did in the past and spend 
less time being active or creative. 
What is the reason for this? 
What measures should be taken to encourage children to be more active? 
Today children spend more time watching television than at any point in the past. The 
reason for this is the development of online streaming websites and parents should eschew 
smartphones to curb this trend towards passivity. 
The main reason that many children today spend an outsized amount of time watching 
television is that it is widely available on streaming websites. YouTube was the earliest, and 
now the most popular, streaming website for video content. Children are often allowed to 
watch it on smartphones or iPads. The more recent rise of streaming websites like Netflix 
and Hulu provide the same experience as television on the internet. Simply put, children 
spend more time watching because they have the ability to choose whatever show they 
want, pause it, and binge watch TV shows on a variety of portable devices with limited 
adult supervision. 
In order to discourage children from watching television, parents should not give their 
children smartphones under any circumstances. This is the first step that responsible 
parents must undertake. Once children are no longer tempted by phones, it is much easier 
to get them interested in creative outlets. Parents can sign up their children for art or music 
lessons. They could encourage them to do art at home and instead of putting a TV in their 
room, fill it with books and art supplies. Children’s natural curiosity and artistic energy will 
naturally take over from that point and parents then need only supervise, guide and 
intervene when called upon. 
In conclusion, parents can counterbalance the rise of streaming by banning portable 
devices and stocking up on art supplies. Unfortunately, it will take a concerted effort from 
the majority of parents to prevent children without devices from being ostracised socially. 

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