The Internet and Teens: What can parents do to manage their children?
In recent years, the world is changing rapidly every day with the development and progress of science and technology. In particular, the explosion of information technology has created benefits and opportunities for people, society and the economy interact, link, share information or knowledge together – especially the development of the Internet is increasing variedly. However, besides the use of the Internet is also causing annoyance to users. The most common is teenagers are becoming “addicted to the Internet”. Internet addiction causes a great deal of consequences that teenagers are not aware of the Internet’s potential risks.
The first consequence of Internet addiction …show more content…
Nowadays, students often have to work in groups and essay assignments instead of tests or quiz that require students to invest their time and knowledge. However, to save time, several of them just go to Google and type the name of the documentation required search, they have hundreds of results. Then, their extremely simple operations are just “Cut” and “Paste” without investing their gray matter. Besides some students take the trouble to read and learn about documents carefully, there are a lot of students copy all of information on the internet and put into their essay that does not need to know that information is correctly or not. This issue not only reduces their thinking capacity, but also makes chances to help them plagiarize. The Internet makes teenagers become more passive and lazy. On the other hand, every day the number of the people reading electronic books is increasing, that number is more than the people reading printed books. 88% of teens have access to phone confirmed that they liked these devices more than traditional textbooks; almost 90% of them believed that the Internet will help them study more efficiently and more than half of them think that Tablets will completely replace textbooks within the next five years (Heidi Cohen, 2015). In brief, teenagers are becoming dependent on the Internet has increased …show more content…
Educating children with positive attitudes is the first and the most important solution. Everyone needs to be motivated, encouraged and teenagers too. According to Webroot, “Many parents get angry when they see the signs of the Internet addiction in their child” (2006). Encouraging teenagers to reduce their bad habits actively can help them want to do better. Instead of adults and parents repeating judgments like, “You must not use the computer a lot”, “You have to take your phone away”, or “Do not play game” ; why do not parents try things like, “I believe you can reduce your using phone times” and “Have you tried not to check your messages during an hour or two hours?”. When children sulk or protest, the first thing parents are required to do is understanding their mood. This means parents should attentively listen and talk to them, and observe their actions to understand their feelings more. Besides, when parents want to ask children, they should do that so gently. Contrary to the theory, many people become easily angered and cannot remain calm, especially when children keep silent and do not speak (Webroot, 2006). To be honest, in that case, most of people are easily annoyed and angry. However, the angrier the parents’ face look, the more frightened the children are and then they still can not open their mouths to answer and this problem can influence children’s attitude
In recent years, the world is changing rapidly every day with the development and progress of science and technology. In particular, the explosion of information technology has created benefits and opportunities for people, society and the economy interact, link, share information or knowledge together – especially the development of the Internet is increasing variedly. However, besides the use of the Internet is also causing annoyance to users. The most common is teenagers are becoming “addicted to the Internet”. Internet addiction causes a great deal of consequences that teenagers are not aware of the Internet’s potential risks.
The first consequence of Internet addiction …show more content…
Nowadays, students often have to work in groups and essay assignments instead of tests or quiz that require students to invest their time and knowledge. However, to save time, several of them just go to Google and type the name of the documentation required search, they have hundreds of results. Then, their extremely simple operations are just “Cut” and “Paste” without investing their gray matter. Besides some students take the trouble to read and learn about documents carefully, there are a lot of students copy all of information on the internet and put into their essay that does not need to know that information is correctly or not. This issue not only reduces their thinking capacity, but also makes chances to help them plagiarize. The Internet makes teenagers become more passive and lazy. On the other hand, every day the number of the people reading electronic books is increasing, that number is more than the people reading printed books. 88% of teens have access to phone confirmed that they liked these devices more than traditional textbooks; almost 90% of them believed that the Internet will help them study more efficiently and more than half of them think that Tablets will completely replace textbooks within the next five years (Heidi Cohen, 2015). In brief, teenagers are becoming dependent on the Internet has increased …show more content…
Educating children with positive attitudes is the first and the most important solution. Everyone needs to be motivated, encouraged and teenagers too. According to Webroot, “Many parents get angry when they see the signs of the Internet addiction in their child” (2006). Encouraging teenagers to reduce their bad habits actively can help them want to do better. Instead of adults and parents repeating judgments like, “You must not use the computer a lot”, “You have to take your phone away”, or “Do not play game” ; why do not parents try things like, “I believe you can reduce your using phone times” and “Have you tried not to check your messages during an hour or two hours?”. When children sulk or protest, the first thing parents are required to do is understanding their mood. This means parents should attentively listen and talk to them, and observe their actions to understand their feelings more. Besides, when parents want to ask children, they should do that so gently. Contrary to the theory, many people become easily angered and cannot remain calm, especially when children keep silent and do not speak (Webroot, 2006). To be honest, in that case, most of people are easily annoyed and angry. However, the angrier the parents’ face look, the more frightened the children are and then they still can not open their mouths to answer and this problem can influence children’s attitude