Tag Archives: Parental Controls

Mobile Parental Controls. Mobile devices are now mainstream and the perfect size for little hands to use. What’s more is that they are all able to connect to the internet. How convenient! Leave yours lying around and its likely to be picked up by your young one, who will quickly know how to connect to the internet. Kids love pushing …

5 Internet Monitoring Tactics for Parents. In March and April, Knowledge Networks asked 535 pairs of parents and their teens a number of questions about Internet use. The results were interesting: 28% of teens believe their parents are not checking their Web browsing history. But of these teens, 41% of their parents say they are in fact checking it. 49% of teens say they don’t know if their …

Teachers Given Search Powers – Are we going Too Far? On 25 August 2011, the Education Ministry announced that teachers and principals have the right to search through students’ personal diaries, cell phones or laptops under new guidelines. The announcement goes on to say that searches and confiscations affect student rights and their privacy and should only be carried out …

How to Set Parental Controls on Mac OS X. In this article, you’ll learn how to set the parental controls on Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. These step-by-step instructions will be useful to you if your family uses a Mac desktop computer or a Macbook. Please pass this guide on to any parent who uses a Mac in their …

Why Parental Control Software? Parental control software is known by many names including parental software, internet safety software, cyber safety software, monitoring software and so on. Ultimately, its purpose is to monitor and filter internet traffic. Let’s examine why parents may wish to install it and some of the key features and use. Children are using the internet at a …

Is My Child Being Bullied? Bullying has been around for many years and for some time was accepted as part of being a kid. If you were bullied it was something you just had to deal with. Today, that is no longer accepted. Many of us understand the trauma the victim goes through. The anxiety, stress, pain and misery that …

How To Manage Your Kids on Facebook. Given that the popularity of Bebo is on the downward trend, and that in a few years it may be gone forever, Facebook is ever more popular. Unfortunately, this popularity is resulting in younger members. A user should be 13 years of age at least, to create a Facebook account. Yet children are getting around this by …

When Should I Install Parental Monitoring Software? Now that cyber safety is being talked about more, and we are seeing more news reports about the dangers, Parents are wondering when they should install such software. From my experience, parents are only thinking about monitoring software when their children are around 12 years of age. The reality is that children are …

What Parents Don’t Know About Their Kids on the Internet. In days gone by, a parent would give their wee Johnny or Jackie instructions of how to keep safe while playing. These would consist of playing nicely, not to play on the road, be nice to other kids and don’t be late. These days it’s a totally different ball game. …

Social Networking Sites – Know What Your Kids Are Doing. Children spend hours on the internet, and parents often don’t know what they are doing. There is a growing gap between what parents THINK their kids are doing on the internet, and what they are ACTUALLY doing. Social networking sites are huge for our children these days. Its all about …