The Drill of Parental Intervention on Children's Television Watching in Kaffa Zone Bonga Town

The study's main goal was to look into children's television-watching habits,and drills used by parents to intervene their children's television watching. It also examines the link between parental intervention drills and Bonga town's socioeconomic condition. The study was conducted using a survey research design. The information was gathered from two schools: one governmental and the other a private school. The study enlisted 200 parents. Questionnaires was used to acquire data. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics was obtained using SPSS 26. Chi-square tests were used to investigate the association between parental television viewing habits and children's television viewing habits. Similarly, descriptive statistics were employed to investigate the presence and lack of parental television intervention, yielding the finding that more than half of the participants use television intervention strategies, while the remainder do not monitor their children's television viewing habits. This study confirmed that, a strong association observed between parental television viewing hours and children's school day and weekend viewing hours. Finally, the current research looked at the practice of parental television intervention in relation to socioeconomic level. There was a strong link between parental television intervention and monthly household income. The findings revealed, parents should begin paying attention to their children's television watching habits and use effective television intervention tactics to reduce television's detrimental impact