Introduction When was the last time you used the Internet, watched television, read a magazine, read a newspaper or even listened to the radio? The answer for most would be: not much. The media have crept cautiously into our daily lives and have even made their use almost necessary. It's safe to say that the average person is exposed to media multiple times a day. However, how many times have you actually stopped to think about its effects on us? Most would say: rarely or almost never. Also, have you thought about its effects on our children? How does the media today affect little Suzy or little Johnny? Living in the twenty-first century, it is crucial to think about the various effects we encounter. Lots of insight into being stalked by people for their own self-interest. It is therefore of vital importance for our good and that of our children to carefully evaluate the effects of daily life activities. One of the most important aspects to study is the effects of media on our children. Some believe that media positively influences children by providing them with education, awareness and making them pro-social. However, others criticize the effect of the media on children, saying that it promotes aggression, fear and spreads stereotypical images. Topics To begin with, media has many positive effects. For example, the media provides effective teaching tools to children. Some educators believe that children are able to grasp information and learn from television programs due to their visual nature. Furthermore, educational video games, such as Brain Ace and Flash Focus, require the student to be actively engaged and therefore entertained. (Barlette, Anderson and Swing, 2008) Furthermore, the research... in the center of the paper... and Aggression, fear and altruism of children. The future of children. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20053121Greitemeyer, T. (2011). Effects of pro-social media on social behavior: When and why does media exposure affect helping and aggression? Current directions in psychological science. Retrieved from http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/20/4/251Steinke, J., Lapinski, M., Crocker, N., Zietsman-Thomas, A., Williams, Y., Evergreen, S., & Kuchibhotla, S. (2007). Evaluating media influences on middle school-age children's perceptions of women in science using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST). Science communication. Retrieved from http://scx.sagepub.com/content/29/1/35Cantor, J. (2004) "I'll Never Have a Clown in My House" - Why Horror Movies Live on. Poetics Today. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/poet/summary/v025/25.2cantor.html