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These activities constitute an essential experiential training for the Internet Risks in where the children and adults can move gradually from the stage of ignorance and prohibition to the stage of knowledge and "positive use". This gradual transition depends not only on knowledge and skills but also on the positions and conceptions developed through the mutual activities in order to make children chose freely and intelligently. The cooperative experience on the Internet activities has provided the adults with an experiential conception of the possibilities and the risks. Every adult participant acknowledges the positive outcomes from using the internet as well as the possibilities that it offers to them and their children. At the same time, adults recognize the possibility of risks occurring if children are not trained well. Every adult cited that the best training received by children is through guidance and dialogue in order to make the children develop a critical thinking when using the internet. Some of them support the “exposure” in controlled situations.

Several adults are still basing children education as in the means of the Internet Risks and Prohibition. However, the mutual internet activities were seen as the basis of guidance, the controlled “exposure” at risks and as a way to develop “critical thinking”. In this way, changes are possible in the conceptions and positions of the parents. Consequently, time devotion has benefits in such experiential activities. Adults and children can learn from each other in a constructive and pleasant manner and they can enjoy the time they spend together.