Children's online Time Should Be Controlled by Parents

A report of Flinders University showed that most of Australian students spend at least two hours

a day online, and it is double in England. But the most worrying problem is that only 17 per cent

of parents who have children at the adolescent age take an eye on what their children are looking

for on the Internet. It is clear that internet is one of the best educators for our children. However,

there are also many dangers of the Internet. Therefore, parents need to control the amount of time

that their children spend online.

That spending long hours online is damaging to health is the first thing need talked about. Kids

who don not get enough outdoor play easily become overweigh because they spend a lot of time

sitting down and not moving. They are regarded as couch potatoes of Internet. In addition, it is

said that this hobby tend too suffer because of too much viewing. And the fact that many

children have to wear glasses for the hobby above. Furthermore, scientists proved that watching

computer causes your brain to slowly operate.

When most children think of the internet, they think of the main source of entertainments such

as music, films, games, etc. Playing game on the internet becomes tendency nowadays. Vo Lam

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take their free time for this trend, even some play truant to play online games. Meanwhile,

parents and educators often worry that children who spend many hours online are not learning to

socialize with each other, or to develop creative skills.

There is too much information on the internet. Children are not mature enough to select what is

appropriate with them without parents' guidance, so they can be affected by unwholesome

information. Vice, crime and sex can be given too much emphasis and therefore have a

disastrous effect on them. Besides, the inventions of blogs, yahoo chat, virtual reality seem even

more dangerous because it seems to mean that actual reality is not being faced and learnt about.

Children often chat with people they don not