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/^t/It is heard very often that children spend too much time in front of TV. In fact, they seem to be addicted to it. This starts from the very young age because most mothers treat television as a free baby-sitter. Whenever women are too busy to take care of their children, they just switch the TV on and sit the babies in front of it, so that the children do not disturb them. Then the kids watch hours of programs devouring rather less than more meaningful pictures. Next, they get used to consuming visual material without thinking and finally they become thoughtless consumers of showbusiness and propaganda. In order to prevent people from passive reception of motion pictures we should teach children about television, its programs, purposes and value