Nowadays, Internet technology has become a big part of our lives. Everyone knows internet including our children. Actually, internet is one of the most effective learning media for children. They can easily get some information which they need to do their tasks, or just enrich their knowledge and creativity with the information inside. These are only a fraction of the many positive things that can be utilized our children from internet. On the other side, internet also has some negatif effects for our children. The negatif effects can arise from two things. There are the child’s behavior on the internet and internet content itself. For children, internet can be said as a new environment that give comfortable feeling to them. After entangled with a sense of comfort, finally they entered the stage of addiction. In this stage,they become like zombies who sit stiffly in front of the computer and do not care about the situation around them. They will be an individual person later because they never interact with another people in the real life. From the content of internet, as we know internet is a place where sexual material scattered freely. Teenagers usually like things that smell sexuality. Some researchs have shown that there are a lot of parents do not know what their children do with the internet. Whereas the role of parents in this case is necessary for the use of the Internet can really benefit and instead of destroying the child. There are some ways to protect our children from the negatif effect of the internet.
First ways is accompany our children when they access internet. Parental guidance for children who want to use internet for the first time is really needed. It does not mean that parents become guardians of rigid and cruel to children, but become a friend who can lead children to be able to use the internet more wisely. Parent should invite the children to be open and show the brand sites open, email from her friends, or what they are talking in a chat room and also help them if they do not understand some things about the Internet.
Second, we can set the computer’s place in the family room. By putting a computer in place where passed by family members, children feel unsupervised, so there is no gap for him to use the internet for things that are less good.
Third ways is make a deal with our children about duration for accessing internet. Besides accompanying, we also should give a clear time limit for children to access the Internet. We also give them time enough to be able to dig up the information needed for school assignment. When they finish, give a chance to enjoy the entertainment sites or playing games online. By giving these limits, the children can be more set priorities for the use of internet start of something important to the things that are fun, so bad things and useless can be minimized.
Forth, we can encourage our children to do other fun activities. Many kinds of educational activities offered kids out there like different kinds of lessons. We can provide options for our children to follow the lessons according to their interests and talents. We should encourage them to socialize with their peers. We can let them play together so they can practice socializing with good. Activities that require a lot of motion like a fun sport is also very necessary. Long sitting in front of the computer is not good for the child's body posture.
The last but not least is we must install web filters on our computers. By installing web filters, we can select out which one can and can’t be accessed or we can use the browser or search engine specifically for children so that the sites which is not good can be blocked. There are a lot of browser service for children that can be downloaded for free. We can download and install it on our computer. The children will be safe from the dangers of sites that do not fit with their age.
Actually,Internet has good effects and bad effects. That is our responsibility as a parents to select something good from the internet. As a parents, we must protect our children from everythings that have negatif effect including negatif effect of internet. With those ways, we can not only use the internet wisely but also avoid the effect that can destroy our children’s future.
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