Todays media takes important and big part in everyday life of every individual, either grownup, children or young people. With development of digital surroundings there are different digital devices that we meet on daily base. Primary, with their purpose, they make everyday obligations easier, speed up simple processes, entertain individuals and make unapproachable things approachable, yet excessively and uncontrolled use of digital devices can lead individuals to problem. Childs growth is described with changes in ability, properties and childs behavior, so to be able to pass through changes of abilitys, properties and behavior from birth, child has to pass through some periods and types of growth typical for certain age. Motor development is described through childs movements where enviroment takes important part like in development of cognitive skills, too. Contact with enviroment anables us to recieve, transfer and process certain information, yet we use speech to transfer our needs, emotions, knowlage and others opinion. Speaking of emotions, it's very important to emphasize that child, in contact with enviroment, expresses it's emotions and with that act he shows us his needs. Play is important part of childhood too, because it's the most important and the most basic activity of childhood that influences growth and development. Very important part of learning media literacy are also teachers and parents who need to know how to take the best of every media itself so child can indirectly make the best of it. The purpose of this work is to show positive and negative influence of television on childs development, health and everyday activities.