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With the amount of Parental Software available for your PC today it's quite a task deciding what is right for you and your children.
The choice we all have to make is whether we try to educate our kids into learning safe surfing practices or whether we go down the Parental Software path. We decided on the former route; many choose to lock down with the latter.
There's nothing wrong with Parental Software controls and many parents prefer this as a solution. It will, for example, allow you to:
•block inappropriate sites and content;
•get alerts if your child tries to do something/access sites that they shouldn't;
•monitor what they do and say online;
•set time limits on your child's surfing.
We ultimately took a middle ground alternative and set up some Parental Software Controls to block certain types of content. But I didn't want to 'nanny' what our kids do online by using a full software solution that logs every site he visits and keystroke he makes.
We've had lots of talks about online safety and we have been upfront about the dangers and problems that our kids could come across. Like most children, it's the thinking that hurts!
Like many parents, we have set out informal guidelines as well rather than blocking/controlling what our children do. They know, for example, that they are not allowed to:
•access new sites without asking first;
•ever click on an advert, even to close it down;
•open sites via searches unless they are 'OK'ed' by our anti-virus site checker.
Kids learn best from their own mistakes and those that they see others make.
If you are confused about parental software to help protect your children online then try this easy to use and smart little piece of parental software