Parental control

When people who have a teenage childage, they learn that I work as a system administrator, they often ask how it is better to exercise parental control over what their child does on the network. Children at all times as a magnet attracted to an interesting, new, unusual. If an adult needs some time to understand how to use this or that software product, children, as a rule, learn simple actions that is called "entry". And since the use of the World Wide Web can hardly be called a difficult affair, it means that it is easy to get used to this new world.

So when does the parental control of the Internetbecomes relevant? Since the moment when your growing child reaches the level "I can find information on the Web". From that moment (if you care about what your child is doing at the computer), you should think about what you need to do in order to benefit from visiting the Network, rather than harm. After all, a weak child's psyche is easily traumatized in a collision with "adult" content, so indeed, parental control is necessary here.

Perhaps, after reading the first paragraphs, you are thinking,but is it worth giving a child the opportunity to sit at the computer and expose it to the dangers that the network hides in its bosom? If so, you can activate the Windows 7 "Parental Control" option. Windows XP, however, does not have such features, but for this OS there are good programs with which you can either completely ban access to the World Wide Web, or put the browser under reliable control. As it seems to me, the best thing at the moment is a completely free and very simple to configure utility - K9.

But if you ask my opinion, I will answer that, Iwould not advise you the road of prohibitions. Firstly, the forbidden fruit is sweet, and secondly, without giving the child something to do at home, you can not exclude the situation when a child visits a friend and climbs the Internet just behind the taboo. So get ready to tie your teenager to the battery. This is the most reliable way to completely protect it from the corrupting influence of any temptations and, perhaps, the most reliable parental control.

Much smarter and more correct, in my opinion,to move not to prohibitions, but, on the contrary, to foster trust between children and parents on all issues, including on such a new one as access to the Internet. You can organize everything in such a way that your soul too is at peace, since the child does not wander randomly or purposefully to a site with xxx content or other "delights", but at the same time that sites with normal content included in his range of interests, were available without unnecessary formalities.

Helps in ensuring transparency of useInternet organization of a place for a computer is not in the child's room, but in a common room where you can easily see what is happening on the screen at a particular moment.

It will also be useful to periodically conductyour child's conversation on the topic of correct behavior on the web, the inadmissibility of reporting information about yourself to strangers, laying out photos that may become compromising, and other actions that are potentially capable of complicating a child's life. Naturally, parental control should not be limited to content, it would not be superfluous to determine the timeframe for being on the World Wide Web. Since a long sitting behind the monitor is unlikely to affect positively the health of children. Especially harmful is the pastime for the eyes of a teenager, but other organs suffer no less with prolonged absence of motor activity.

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