Opportunities and Threats of Cyberspace in the Growth of Intelligence, Creativity, Sentiments, Rationality, Thought, and Life Styles of Children

Today the development of cyberspace and network facilities in our country, and the attraction and tendency of children towards these facilities prompt us to utilize these opportunities to rear their capabilities. At the same time, there are certain threats and menaces lurking beneath such facilities which may undermine their moral and social foundations. The possibility of the outbreak of cultural and psychological insecurity as esteemed from such cyberspace facilities, along with the unfamiliarity of family members and the lack of control over their children made it necessary to take some logical measure to curb them. This work is aimed at studying the opportunities and threats of cyberspace in the rearing of children’s intelligence, creativity, sentiments, thinking power, and living styles. The present paper is an analytic-documental work for which qualitative and documental analysis have been used as well. In other words, documents have been studied and have been analyzed and assessed qualitatively. It is concluded that it is possible to overcome the threats and menaces of cyberspace and utilize them in rearing children’s intelligence. It is also possible to sort out a logical pattern in education of children, based on certain principles, to attain an internal insight which is manifested in three cognitive, emotional, and behavioral fields. It is the same insight which can safeguard them before the threats of cyberspace.