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Internet Usage is the prominent feature of 21st century because Internet Usage has become an integral part of everybody�s life in multiple ways. Even in the field of Education the contributions of Internet are remarkable. Students approach the internet for education but gradually they get lured by the entertaining features of the internet and prefer to use internet for gaming and entertainment purposes than for knowledge purposes. Excessive Internet Use by students of all age groups is a cause of concern for teachers, parents and society at large. The researches have shown that Parents can play an important role in controlling and governing the Internet using behaviour of their children. Therefore the present study has been undertaken to study the relationship between Internet Usage and Parenting Styles and also study the impact of six different parenting styles on the Internet Usage of secondary school students. The study has been conducted on 1000 (500Boys and 500 Girls) selected through stratified random sampling technique from the secondary schools (Class IX and X) of Jalandhar district. The data has been collected through Internet Usage Scale (2016) by Saini and Kaur and Children�s Perception of Parenting Scale (2012) by Pyari and Kalra. The findings related to correlation analysis depicted that Autocratic, Over Demanding, Over Protecting and Rejecting Parenting Style have a significant positive relationship with Internet Usage whereas Accepting and Democratic Parenting Style have a significant negative relationship with Internet Usage of the secondary school students. The findings related to regression analysis depicted that Parenting Styles exert a significant impact on the Internet Usage of the secondary school students. The Autocratic, Over Demanding, Over Protecting and Rejecting Parenting Style exerts a significant positive impact on the Internet Usage of the secondary school students whereas Accepting and Democratic Parenting Style exerts a significant negative impact on the Internet Usage of the secondary school students. It indicates that strict, harsh, warmth less and over controlling attitude of parents encourages the children for excessive non essential use of Internet whereas parental warmth, affection, care, concern and appropriate discipline helps in governing the excessive non essential Internet Usage of their children.