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Keeping Your Kids Safe On Your Computer

Many parents these days are having a lot of trouble keeping tabs on their kids online activities. Kids these days learn so fast and they just happened to be born into the technology boom. Most of them are better at using computers than we are! So it’s important to really know how to keep control over your computer if your children are spending time on it. There are various un-invasive ways to keep track of what your kids have been up to online. I’d like to take a second to remind you of the excellent resources you have at the bottom of this article.  I’ve given you access to a website reviewing the best method for keeping track of your kids computer activities, and gaining total control over your computer.

The first and most obvious way to keep track of your kids online activities is to set up parental controls with your ISP. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the company that provides you with your internet connection (I know you knew that). Not all ISPs offer parental control suites, but you will have to give them a call or head to their website to set these up. Usually these types of things simply block your connection from accessing certain “forbidden sites”. These are very effective in blocking known sites but the problem is that the internet is so vast and ever changing that its easy for your child to stumble on to something inappropriate.

Another nifty trick to have up your sleeve is very Sherlock Holmes in nature. After your child uses the computer, open up the browser and click ‘history’. This will show you all the websites that have been visited in the past week. This is only useful if your child doesn’t already know how to delete the history. The trick is to seem like some type of ominous God. “So I see you’ve been on YouPorn today?” They will wonder how you knew that and change browsing habits accordingly. But, most children these days DO know how to change the history.