Many people are worried about what television has done to the generation of American children who have grown up watching it. For one thing, recent studies tend to show that TV stifles creative imagination. Some teachers feel that television has taken away the child’s ability to form mental pictures in his own mind, resulting in children who cannot understand a simple story without visual illustrations. Secondly, too much TV too early tends to cause children to withdraw from real-life experiences. Thus, they grow up to be passive spectators who can only respond to action, but not initiate it. The third area for concern is the