I'll let you in a little secret about TV addiction. The American watches television for more than four hours a day. A study found that children 6 months to 6 years old spend on average 2 hours a day watching television, using a computer or playing a video game. That is three times as long as they spend reading or read to. Television makes children violent and aggressive. to the National Institute of Mental Health, there is a consensus developing among members of the research community that violence on television does to aggressive by children and teenagers who watch the programs. Television discourages face-to-face interaction among children or families. Sitting in front of the television leads to weight gain, increasing the chances of diabetes in children and heart disease in adults. Television programs model undesirable behaviour such as drug and alcohol use or relationships. Research indicates that students may be less able to engage in formal descriptions of events or objects than their peers in the past.