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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.