How to Monitor Children’s Internet Use

Monitoring what your child does on the Internet can be a challenging task.  You as a parent often have to be proactive to make sure your child is being safe on the Internet and is not making poor choices or being followed around by Cyber Bullies. 

One of the easiest and most common sense ways to make sure your children are using the computer as you would wish is to put it in a high traffic area.  That way you or someone else will likely see whatever they are doing on the computer and can question them if you see something amiss.  

Another simple tip is to check your computers browsing history.  This is very simple and will allow you to check for kids who are not too tech savvy.  If your children are a bit smarter and know what they are doing this step might not work out for you at all and you might need to move on to the next step.  

A third step is to install parental control software.  This software will allow you to see each and every site visited on your computer by your child.  It will also allow you to block certain sites or categories of sites that you do not want your child to visit. 

Fourthly, if you see your child acting very strange when you walk by the computer, they might be trying to hide something.  You can see this by your child minimizing windows or closing them entirely when you walk.  It will be fairly obvious.

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Should Children be Monitored on the Internet by their Parents?

Children should be monitored by there parents on the internet to an extent, it all depends on the level of maturity and age of the child. Young kids, say 13 years old, should probably be watched but not excessively, by that time your child should have enough common sense to know what they are doing and know the difference between what is right and wrong. 

You should have raised your child to not do anything stupid, such as fall for pedophile traps. But you shouldn’t restrict the sites they can or can’t go to, because that is there business.  When a kid is under the age of 10 or so, then sure restrict sites with adult content but there is a limit.  Sooner or later they are going to discover it. 

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