Objective: To assess the internet addicted teenagers’ parents’ awareness about positive and negative impact of internet use. Methods: A survey was conducted to find out the parents’ awareness about positive and negative impact of internet use by distributing a questionnaire to the parents of those teenagers already identified as internet addicted. Results: 73% parents believe that internet useful to supports education, 81% agreed that internet useful for attaining informations, 51% believe internet is useful for individual development and 78% agreed that internet is very useful for communication and entertainment. Whereas 55% believe that internet somewhat facilitate easy access to child unfriendly contents, 70% agreed that internet somewhat hampers in individual’s development, 64% have the opinion that internet somewhat puts negative impact on human psychology and 75% believe that internet somewhat puts negative impact on physical health. Conclusions: Though teenagers’ parents have some knowledge about the positive and negative impact of internet, they have poor control over their children or, they don’t know the strategic management for prevention and management of internet addiction.
