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Being the parent of two pre-teen children is both rewarding and overwhelming. It was a lot easier to protect, monitor, and keep track of them when they were fully dependent on me. As they grow I find I must empower them more and more to make their own decisions. After all, isn’t the goal of good parenting to teach your children how to be responsible, loving, and well adjusted adults? But what does it take in today’s technology over-loaded society to raise well adjusted, responsible children? When we were kids our parents taught us to Just Say No to Drugs. Today we need to teach our children to Just Say No to Porn and to deal with modern issues like sexting, cyber bullying, social networks, email, texting, or even how to recognize when their being contacted by a child predator.

The virtual world is vast, but it can be managed just like the real world with clear boundaries and expectations. A complete parental control plan needs to include 4 key elements. Each element has a purpose and can be used to protect, teach, and maintain healthy boundaries that can be used for the rest of their life. Blocking

There are destinations in the world of the web that no one, especially young people should visit. Web pages detailing every form of deviant lifestyle, criminal behavior, and addictive activities are available to anyone who wishes to find them. Can we agree that there is no need to allow our children access to some places on the Internet? Statistics show that over one third of the pages published on the web are pornography. So by blocking these sites we only now have to deal with two thirds of the pages. Hey, we’re making progress here! Filtering

The next level of parental controls is filtering. Although the tools used are the same as blocking, filtering is a different approach to boundaries. Filtering is an important tool because it involves you as the parent making decisions about what your child will see. A good example for the use of filtering is a site kids LOVE – YouTube. YouTube is viral which means they count on users to irresistibly click on video after video. Limiting access to YouTube helps kids practice moderation and self control. Filtering is a tool that helps you define and enforce boundaries for the time, place, and duration of their YouTube fun. As with any other parenting tool, you make the rules based on what your child needs. Monitoring

Blocking and filtering are preventative measures but in the pursuit of helping our kids learn healthy boundaries we must allow them some degree of freedom. Monitoring is simply the process of enforcing the agreed upon boundaries between parent and child. Every family dynamic is unique and where some parent’s desire to have a full log of online activities, others want only to be alerted when boundaries are violated. In either case, monitoring can be a useful tool for parental oversight and for children to prove their responsibility. Remember, the goal is not to control and dominate your children but to teach and empower them to make good decisions in the virtual just like they learn to do in the real world. Mobile

There is an exponential increase in features and capabilities of mobile devices today which is only going to continue into the future. It’s amazing to think that our children have access to more computing power in their pocket than we had on our desks just a decade ago. No parental control plan is complete without considering the management of mobile devices. Blocking, filtering, and monitoring are just as useful on mobile devices as they are on PC’s and as such are essential. Other useful features of cell phone monitoring software often include GPS based location services and timers to control when texting services are available.

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