This becomes an advantage for children who are studying in accessing information that could help them in their projects and homework. But internet need is very helpful if used in the right way. It is also their means of sharing their knowledge on the field of their expertise from people in their same circle of interests.
Through internet, they can easily help out people who are seeking knowledge from an expert. This is true to some children who wanted to learn new things and seek answers from a true expert. We as parents have to know the advantages and disadvantages of internet in our child. The vast information that online contains may be right or wrongly used. As parents we have to know what will be right and wrong for our children. This is not only for them to be aware but also for us that internet is either educational or destruction.
Advantages of Internet In a Child’s Life
Here are the advantages of internet as our way to access knowledge in a super express way:
Information and knowledge are freely given to some specific sites. One of the latest trends for children to search for information are the online free encyclopedia such as Wikipedia that allows experts to post their knowledge of expertise that would be available for everyone to access like a hardbound encyclopedia. There are also other sites that have specific topics and categories of their contents such as science, technology, clothes or fashion. Everything you need is just a few keystrokes away.
Even though there are certain sites that are not free but there are online merchant sites that offer books or other information that cannot be found on free sites. For example the Amazon and Barnes offer electronic books that children can download and read on their computer than picking up a real heavy book in the library.
Knowledge is not just presented through text but is also available in different media. It will depend on the users want and learning capabilities. A person who is more visual can watch video, read e-books or pamphlets to obtain the information he or she wants. If a person is more on audio learning, there are many audio media containing information that he can listen to. The way internet presented knowledge in a flexible and versatile manner allows people to gain more learning on the format they want and comfortable with.
These advantages of internet make children’s learning without hard ship. These make their time in researching easier for their school projects and home works through retrieving information online.
They can also buy whatever books those are not available in their local libraries. Learning is not difficult for them. Internet had already made it possible for them.
There are many expert people on different fields that can assist the learning of the children. This makes easier than walking through aisle per aisle to look for the books they will be a need on their education.
Disadvantages of Internet In a Child’s Life
However, not all will be on the good side. To make things balance, internet has also its own risks. We as parents are caught between the dilemmas how and when internet will be good or bad.
There are thousands of students and children benefited from the knowledge that internet offered them. But on the bad side, it becomes the source of prey to hunt for innocent lambs that are potential victims.
There will be many online thieves and threats hunting information such as credit card or bank account information, phishing or much worse child molesting.
Because of living in this modern time, there will be young children or teenagers whose mindsets are open for the cultural changes that have been occurring and can cope up with this kind of contents.
But there are still those who remain innocents from all the changes and might be the more potential victims if caught up on the mess.
Moreover, here are other disadvantages that internet can have in your children if they are constantly relying on the internet:
Because information is very easy to access, your children will be encouraged not to read anymore the researches they must conduct and just copy and paste the information. This will make their effort easier on projects and homework. In short, it makes your child lazy from learning his lessons and can lead into plagiarism by their teachers.
We may also want to be aware that not all contents put online are true. Some of the contents are not edited when there will be changes. As a result, there will be schools that will require the banning of usage of online knowledge as reference on their researches.
Some of the online forums and blogs can be the potential places where predators can hunt their prey like your child. As children and teenagers, they often need to seek comfort and help from people outside from their families. In this way, they are open to any attacks.
Pornography is rampant online. Some media sites contain this kid of materials such as images or footage. Not all multimedia contents are for knowledge gaining. There will be those who will try to harm the innocent mind of a child that he or she can be traumatized. These are too much for his or her understanding that could take the normal development of a child towards becoming an adult.
What Are the Dangers Available Online?
Internet can be a place of library or market. There is a vast material which gives information that caters everyone who wanted to expound their learning.
The online has become the core place where the world entwined together with the sites where people can meet throughout the globe such as forums, blogs and the social networking sites. In this way, everyone gets the chance to voice out their opinions and certain emotions they are going through. Everyone now can post whatever thoughts he or she has online.
That is when the privacy of an individual is being violated. For those who are not aware, this becomes an open ticket for predators looking for potential prey. They feed on the thoughts and weaknesses of the victims. Once caught on their hands, you cannot get out anymore.
By this, internet has become the scariest place as of the moment. Credit card or bank account thieves are now rampant. Children molesters are also available now, predators who prey in the innocents of children.
There are also those websites that contain malicious contents. Once a victim clicks something, viruses are downloaded on their computer. They do not know that they have been a victim until they notice losing or corruption of files.
There are also sexual abusive person who acts as your friend at first and when the relationship will turn into the next level, the true purpose is revealed.
The internet is not a safe place anymore for your children. But parents can do something about the matter. Your children can still use the internet but with your own proper guidance and rules.
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