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A Powerful Influence
There can be no doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge difference to our lives. Parents are worried that children spend too much time playing on the Internet, hardly
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doing anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents are
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to find out why the Internet is so attractive, and they want to know if it can be
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for their children. Should parents worry if their children are spending that much time
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their computers?
Obviously, if children are bent over their computers for hours, absorbed
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some game, instead of doing their homework, then something is wrong. Parents and children could decide how much use the child should
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use of the Internet, and the child should give his or her
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that it won"t interfere with homework. If the child is not
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to this arrangement, the parent can take more drastic
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dealing with a child"s use of the Internet is not much different from
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any other soft of bargain about behaviour.
Any parent who is
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alarmed about a child"s behaviour should make an appointment to
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the matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of the screen does not necessarily
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a child"s performance at school. Even if a child is
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crazy about using the Internet, he or she is probably just
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through a phase, and in a few months there will be something else to worry about!