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The Kids are Watching and Learning Television is so often criticized as being bad for children that often a valuable piece of information most often is overlooked: certain groups of programs may actually broaden a child’s intellectual development. Television has received a bad wrap, if parents got involved in what their children were watching they would see the benefits in using television as a learning device. The main benefits children derive from watching television are education, entertainment and social skills. Television has tremendous potential to impart education to children. While children are given formal education in schools, the knowledge obtained from watching television is impossible or at least very difficult to obtain through other means. Certain channels like the Discovery channel and the National Geographic channel focus exclusivel