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Originally Posted by Margies3
I have a 13 year old son who has been known to go to areas of the internet where he should not be (nothing pornographic, just websites that I don't approve of).
His friend's mother said that her husband installed a program called 'Canine' on their computer yesterday to keep her son from going to unauthorized sites. I can't find any more info on that.
So my question for all of you is: have you ever had experience with using a software to keep parental controls on your computer? If so, what have you used and what have you liked or not liked about it?
Thanks for your help.
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I recommend
X3church, or a similar program. The person using the computer is aware the program is in place, which is part of the deterrent. The cookies and temp files are emailed every so often to a parent or pastor or both. The files cannot be undone, and the password can be set so that kids cannot turn the program off. That's for accountability. Unless you have some sort of program that tracks computer usage, you really don't know whether or not inappropriate content has been accessed.
Secondly, we have the computer that the kids use in the kitchen/dining room with the monitor facing the table, so there is no way they could get away with looking at something without being caught, at least, pretty quickly.
Our kids are
never allowed to have our laptops in their bedrooms. Period.
If you use profiles in Windows XP or Vista, you can set up a separate profile for you son, and you can block specific websites, or for more stringent filtering, you can choose to only allow certain websites. The latter works very well, but its much more restrictive.
We also don't allow our kids to search Google images and videos. If they need to search for homework, we get the search terms and look them up first, to make sure nothing inappropriate comes up in the search.
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