How to control your kids’ computer and Internet use

Albert Obese-Jecty's youngest son taught about "teaching parents to teach" that "I forgot my new password after changing my administrator password".

Children and teenagers want to use computers, smartphones, the internet. But they do not necessarily have the knowledge or maturity to use them wisely. Parents should wear their children a short electronic belt and stretch the belt as children grow little by little.

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The first rule is that Albert went bankrupt. Please do not give children or teenagers to give a password to Windows PC administrator account or to use that account. In addition to locking your own computer, you can also disable the tool you set up to protect them.

Obviously, you do not want your child to see pornography or collide with predators. But you should also consider limiting the time that he or she is sitting in front of the screen. By limiting the time spent online, you can provide more sleeping time for your children, old-fashioned social events and sports games.

Regardless of whatever tool you use to protect your child, treat them faithfully. I will let them know that they can check where they are on the Internet and who they are connected to on social media. Explain that this is the cost of their skills. They will complain, but they believe in you, in the long run they will develop self-control

We recommend using the Norton family to protect children. The free version should be enough to access the PC. If your child owns a smartphone, consider upgrading to a Premiere version of $ 50 per year. Regardless of which version you use, you can download the software and install it on the PC or device your child uses. You can then change the settings or monitor those activities from the web page.

Norton Family allows you to monitor and control search, social networking, and web browsing. You can check or deselect the type of website you want to disable. You can also control the actions when a child tries to access one of the sites, block it, display a warning, or send an e-mail notification to Norton.

Warning option is recommended. In this way, a child can decide whether a particular website is suitable for him, and can know that you will find their decision.

MakeUseOf has occasionally reported various articles on the use of computers and the Internet for children of Spy. In some examples, my article on monitoring your child's mobile app, iSpy to monitor your home computer activity, Matt's to track your home computer activity 4 tools, and of course many reviews of parental control software. For all of these, the most important issue is always being responsible for monitoring your child morally or ethically. When are there sufficient reasons to do this? What are good excuses - their online security? Their physical safety and privacy? Or can you violate their privacy aiming at your child?

Parents tend to overlook the fact that kids can be online via their game machines, iPods, mobile phones. These devices have the same web browser as home PC. The filter you installed on your computer can not prevent your child from using a mobile device or gaming system to access a website that is not blocked. Fortunately, most devices used by children, such as the iPad and PlayStation 4, have parental controls that you can set to restrict what children can access. Please read and implement these functions. Regularly check the device to see if the password you have set is still valid. Otherwise, your child may reset control and disable control.