This paper deals with exposure to violence in the media and the behavior of children. Violent content in the media has attracted the attention of children and young people in recent decades, due to new media widely available to children already in early childhood and preschool age, whether it is various television content, content from websites or video and computer games. On the one hand, the media have many positive features because they facilitate learning, communication and the flow of information and can be of great help in educational work. On the other hand, they promote negative and undesirable forms of behavior, mostly through violent content. The role of learning by model and early identification in children's development is well known, so frequent exposure to contents containing violence, often presented in an entertaining way, increases the possibility that the child will expand his repertoire of behavior with precisely undesirable, violent patterns. It is also clear that exclusion from usual peer activities and a large amount of time spent in front of the screen has an adverse effect on social-emotional development. In addition, electronic abuse is quite widespread today, and children often remain silent about it for various reasons. Parents often have no control over the content their child is exposed to. Sometimes this lack of control is determined by parents not being able to cope, and sometimes parents think that it is desirable for the child to be able to cope with different electronic devices. It is the parents who play an important role in reducing the negative impact of the media on the child, helping the child to develop media literacy, control over the time spent in front of the screen and the contents to which it is exposed, and this can only be achieved if they carefully control the time in front of the screens and the contents to which the child is exposed, and help the child to develop a correct attitude towards the media. Educators can also play an important role in teaching a child to use the benefits of the media and to avoid all possible harmful influences.