Children On The Net: Yes Or No? |
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Jan 22 2008, 04:24 PM
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Restrictions to some areas of net,XXX stuff and such.
It's hard task,there are too many adult sites and kids love to use net. Great learning tool indeed,parents have to be a bit more careful,dunno what else to add atm. 
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Jan 22 2008, 05:27 PM
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A few thoughts ...
Parents have to take responsibility for ther children - "I don't understand computers" is not a good answer. The internet is like a city - good parts, bad parts. If you love your children you will make sure that they are only unaccompanied in the good parts. Letting your child surf wherever and whenever they want because you don't understand the net is like letting your child wander around the ghetto becuase you don't understand how to read maps - in either case they can come to harm. However, just as you wouldn't want to keep your child at home all day and watch their every move, you probably wouldn't want to do the same with the internet, however you have a responsibility as a parent to know where they are going and what they are doing, just as in the real world. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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There not really interested in "learning" at all I find. Id be lying if i said i wanted to learn as a child either 
But I sure would be uncomfortable letting any children use the net unsupervised. Especially with so many "internet predators" on chat rooms and popular social networking sites. Not to mention some very unsavory content on XXX and "other" sites 
i agree that restrictions are good.. using those protection programs to keep children off of harmful chat rooms and more time in GMC! yay!
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Jan 23 2008, 04:06 PM
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I would take the essay off in the direction of arguments for and against censorship as a whole.
Typing anti-censorship into google gives quite a few interesting arguments. Best of luck with the essay! |
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Jan 23 2008, 11:20 PM
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yes ... with familly responsebality
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Jan 24 2008, 09:34 AM
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From my experience Intenet in most cases is positive. Sometimes in the past I felt that chat programs like MSN, ICQ, Yahoo were huge time thieves that stole the focus from my work. So what I did was just to exclude them.
I did notice the same problem with the a kids cousine who's staying with us, she was chatting more and more and I noticed her grades fall and she seemed to always be chatting and there were a lot of this Alt+Tab as soon as I came close to the computer. So to get her focus back on school and knowing from my own experience that chat programs generally will steal focus from what you're doing I shut it off for her. Tough call but it was worth it, I think she can appreciate it too now (or soon if she will ever relaize the connection) that her grades rapidly increased and now I'd estimate they to be one notch up in all subjects except for the practical ones. If she needs to talk to someone she picks up the phone. It's as simple as that. I'm going to keep supervising her and I will with my own kids too as they grow up. To get to use Internet for their own benefit and enjoyment but not to the extent any important matters will suffer - that would be themselves, school or family. I have a friend who's a techer from class 1 through 6. He decided to teach his students a little lesson in how to be aware of the back sides with chatprograms. The guys were online and he appeared as a girl their own age and had a chat with the boys. The day after he asked them if they had been chatting to which they said yes. He told them there had been a new girl online and if they had been chatting with her... a bit puzzled they said yes. - It was me They refused to belive that at first, the nick said Angelica so there really was a girl they had been talking too... His morale was that they should be really careful with whom they speak with and not hand out phone numbers, address etc. "Angelica" could appear to be a real perv, as all of us know but kids can be very trusting. So while Internet has a lot of pros there are some pit falls we don't want our kids to fall into. I would not, as said earlier by someone else leave it up to the kid to be the judge of what to do and what not to. Sure, in 99,99% of the cases all is fine but 0,01% (randomly grabbed figure) get in real trouble after handing our dads credit card number to this betrusted new friend, or shows up at the decided meeting place only to get beaten up or raped, the 14 yr old girl appears at old guys hotel room since she wants to fulfill her dreams of becoming a photo model and so forth. So parental supervising all the way for me, I'll do everything I can to not have my kids fall into that poor 0,01 (or whatever) that get into real deep trouble. ...and I'm not a tyrant, I just care 
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