Internet Content
The Internet is something that children become accustomed to early on in this day and age of rapidly growing technology. My child began toying around with Internet games that I set up for him at around the age of 2 and at the age 3 years old was able to navigate the Internet pretty well on his own. One day, my child wanted to watch an episode of the ‘Upside Down Show’ immediately!! I didn’t have this show on DVD and to avoid a temper tantrum meltdown I turned to none other than youtube.com. All was well until my child clicked one too many times on the site and ended up face to face with an ‘adult’ parody of the show. Let’s just say it took some explaining and reassuring before I could rip him off the computer mouse. So how can we ensure that our children don’t run into this type of content before they’re ready? Listed below are features of child-friendly Internet software programs that parents can download to help shield their child from inappropriate content.
By installing this software on your computer you can:
- Limit the amount of time your children spend on the computer.
- Add your own security keywords.
- Prevent access to dangerous sites, and chat rooms.
- Filter from over 60 categories (adult, criminal, drugs, etc) sections of the Internet
- Set up automatic “locked-out” websites.
- Automatically blocks access to web sites based on Internet keyword searches.
