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/^t/Television and computer games should not be the ultimate entertainment for a child but sadly they are. Additionally, they are also the worst "teachers". Today average child sits in front of the tube for about thirty hours a week. A great percent of the programs children watch are adult television. As television offers endless sagas of terror, chase and murder, children learn how to hit and hurt from watching. It is in the same way they learn how to count and read. It may be even worse when a child who sees a world full of violence will accept it as a normal one. Computers also breed laziness among children. Instead of learning mental thinking children grow up believing that machines will do everything for them. What will happen, one may ask, if technological innovations like wireless, palm-size receivers become available for everyone. At the moment they are too expensive for most people but soon they can deepen human dependency on electronic machines. Children are taught that it is better to calculate, pay bills and shop with the aid of computer and telephone. These items have become indispensable even for children, as they work and think for them. One may wonder if it should be a consolation that kids can still read and write.