Online Parental Control Suggestions

Are you working parent? Do you have young children who surf internet at your home? Then you must have realized the importance of parental control. But there are many people who are not very familiar with computer and know nothing about parental control software. Therefore it is necessary to teach your children to stay safe online.

Here are few suggestions on how to keep your children safe online.

Keep track of your children’s school – Some times your children access internet from school. Therefore, you have to make sure that the school has parental control or internet monitoring software. If not a simple internet filtering software should be there. Most of all schools have software which only allows the student to open certain web pages related to their education. The school in which your children study should meet these criteria.

Teach your kids – Observe the online activities of your children. Try to know about the websites they like and visit frequently. You should make them aware of the internet crimes. Apart from that you should also keep yourself updated on how to complain if you suspect an internet crime on your computer. To get more information you may visit cybercrime.gov.

Try to interact with the friends of your children – Try to take some time out of your busy schedule to meet the friends of your children, if possible their parents too. Discuss with them about the harmful side of internet and request their parents to install parental control software on their PC.

Install internet monitoring or parental control software – Software companies are now offering a very easy solution to the parents by introducing parental control software. These software have the capability to filter the websites which will be viewed on your browser easily.

Parental control software allows you to specify certain regulations and prohibit different sites from opening.

There are many parental control software which include Email filters. It blocks specific emails and permits you to filter junk mails out of the mail box.

Internet monitoring software keeps track of all your online activities by creating screen shot of all the sites you have visited. It may also create logs of your chat room and instant messaging conversations.