Is there really anything wrong with letting a very small child to watch television for a few hours a day? This is a (1) ____________ that didn’t need to be asked forty or fifty years ago, when children’s television in the UK was limited to not much (2) ____________ than an hour a day. But now that daytime television has become a reality, and many homes have satellite receivers (3) ____________ channels purely for children, parents have to decide (4) ____________ too much television harms children or not. There are those (5) ____________ who believe that children need conversation and interaction with real people in order to develop properly, (6) ____________ watching television too much can be bad for the child’s development. On the (7) ____________ hand, the vast majority of parents feel that watching lively, bright cartoon and puppet shows on television is fun for the child, and a little amusement can’t be (8) ____________ a bad thing. One thing is quite clear; (9) ____________ able to place a baby in front of the television in the knowledge that he or she will sit there quietly for a while gives parents a welcome break (10) ____________ and then.