Internet and the
Moral issues have always been the two sides of a coin especially for the Indian
middle class families. On one side the mind blowing features of the internet,
providing knowledge, instantaneous, worldwide, interactive and the list goes
on. On the other hand, the issues related to moral and social values like porn,
chatting with strangers, cut out from the outer world, ruining the social life
and again the list goes on….
In our middle
class Indian families moral values are the assets and no one can beat them in
the world. These moral values come into the way when it comes to the internet
world. Parents in the middle class families are afraid that if they got
internet at their home children will be spoiled by the negative effects of the
internet. It’s the tendency in Indian middle class to protect the children from
any bad things weather many good things associated with them also goes
untouched. Fear of being addicted to porn, fear of being making strangers as
friends, fear of being spoiling the social and childhood life and all these
fears because a seed of evil will grow 100 times faster than a seed of
goodness. Parents are absolutely right because the way kids are getting maturity
is a matter of discussion for the parents as well as the society, but that does
not mean that the children of middle class families should be deprived of
internet just because of other fellow children who do ass such kinds of
nonsense activities.
Now the question
arises that how moral values be maintained and simultaneously access to
internet has also be provided to the children especially of Indian middle class
families. For this parents have to come on the front to take it as a challenge.
They should take time from their busy schedule to give time to their children
and tell them the pros and corns of the internet, give them certain assignments
so that their interest related to internet gets built up, fixing their internet
usage hours, giving them a platform to read on the internet and lots and lots
of things that a parent can do in order to generate energy and good ideas in
the mind of a child related to internet such that the other side of the
internet remains away from the child. But what if the parents themselves are
not aware of internet??? A big question to worry!!!! Children want internet,
parents have no knowledge what it is?? But they know that it can harm children
in many ways, so NO NO NO NO to internet. This is a major problem in Indian
middle class families. This problem can also be eradicated but if parents want
so.
Parents could join the internet classes and can have a look at both the sides of the coin before giving the access to children, so that their doubts can be cleared, moral values can be retained and children also gets the access to the internet.
