Making The Internet A Safe Environment For Kids

Nov 17
12:42

2011

Patrick Daniels

Patrick Daniels

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The Internet is available almost anywhere. People can get on line with broadband, wireless service or through the use of a satellite. Anytime you see kids it seems, they will be playing with something that is either for surfing the net or a personal gaming device. Although these devices do seem to keep them busy in otherwise what would be boring circumstances, you have to wonder if kids and the net are a good mix.

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The Internet is available almost anywhere. People can get on line with broadband,Making The Internet A Safe Environment For Kids Articles wireless service or through the use of a satellite. Anytime you see kids it seems, they will be playing with something that is either for surfing the net or a personal gaming device. Although these devices do seem to keep them busy in otherwise what would be boring circumstances, you have to wonder if kids and the net are a good mix.

No one can deny the impact that the web and computers have had on our daily lives and the routines we have developed. Computers will continue to intertwine with our lives as time moves forward. With these facts in mind it only makes perfect sense to allow our children to familiarize themselves with this technology early in life, so that it will serve them well into their future and they can more easily change as the technology changes without having to start from scratch later in life. However, as true as this all is, it is also important to keep them as balanced in their activities as possible, which might require some computer downtime to enjoy other childhood things that are important for young minds to experience.

There are multiple ways of using the computer to learn and this especially applies to kids. With the vast supply of knowledge, information and experiences that are available to them via all these new learning tools, they can learn at their own pace at advanced speeds unavailable just a few short years ago. Pick any interest or project and the information available for just that one thing can be overwhelming, due to the volume that is out there to be accessed. Kids do learn better and faster simply by using and doing and this includes navigating the net successfully.

No one including parents should be naive enough to not understand that too much of any thing can sometimes do harm and this is true of kids spending too much time in front of the computer screen. Playing and engaging in physical activities are very important in the development during childhood years and should get equal time in the daily routine of a child. Activity time allotments are very important of setup and enforce. The other web dangers that parents should take serious is predators and cyber bullying which can become a serious problem, both physically and psychologically and is very important that the child is educated and understands what is happening if they become a target.

By any standards, it is all but impossible to discount or dismiss the importance and educational impacting possibilities that the Internet and computers have on life in general and on a child young life specifically. It is also not very wise to ignore the dangers that this technology brings into the safety of the home environment. Computer time is very much like physical activity time, in that supervision is the key to keeping everyone safe. A safe environment encourages learning and should be an understood part of every child's learning and developing activities for many years into their future.