IN this era of vast technology, children use technology in many ways, with their parents having little or no control over it. Despite using age gates and other preventive measures on the internet and the television, children still cannot be kept away from what’s bad for them. Among such things, the major concern of parents is slapstick comedy which is shown in almost every cartoon aired during children’s prime time.

This is shaping their minds in such a way that instead of being sympathetic for the character, who is run over by a car, or the one who has jumped off the cliff, they consider it hilarious. Not only this, advertisements also portray the same image where characters are beating each other over petty issues. It is the duty of channel authorities to air something good.

Uroosa Jadoon

Karachi

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2016