Comment Good parenting is important but you need software (Score 1) 646
I trust my 8 year old to be on the internet in the family room with minimal oversight before I get home from work while mom is making dinner. But if he searches for "on-line clock" he's one missing "L" away from porn.
We use the free Norton Online Family. It's not perfect but it's doing the job pretty well for now.
I just wish websites did a better job and allowed users to flag user-generated content as NSFW or a sliding scale. My kid is into science, math and space and loves wikipedia. I wish that website had some parental control settings. He loves it for learning about the elements but he could stumble upon other things I'd rather him not learn about quite yet.
And we try to block user-generated content in general. He liked an on-line puzzle-style game where you could upload your own levels. I noticed that some of the levels people uploaded were in the shape of 4 letter words or 'naughty-bits'.
We use the free Norton Online Family. It's not perfect but it's doing the job pretty well for now.
I just wish websites did a better job and allowed users to flag user-generated content as NSFW or a sliding scale. My kid is into science, math and space and loves wikipedia. I wish that website had some parental control settings. He loves it for learning about the elements but he could stumble upon other things I'd rather him not learn about quite yet.
And we try to block user-generated content in general. He liked an on-line puzzle-style game where you could upload your own levels. I noticed that some of the levels people uploaded were in the shape of 4 letter words or 'naughty-bits'.
