Top 6 Child-proof Internet Parental Control Tips

 

When it comes to safety on the Internet, our children are more vulnerable than we are. Now days, kids are using the Internet as much as their parents and this makes it a lot easier for scammers because they can easier get through to a child than they can an adult. 

 

A child can be more trusting especially if there are rewards involved and in as much as we will teach our kids to be careful in the Internet; at the end of the day it pays to remember they are children and can be tricked quite easily. That is why parents need to device ways through which they can maintain safety for their children on the Internet.

Many parents will block certain websites that they feel their children should not visit at all. But there are other sites that are not too safe and you might not be able to block them all. 

 

Children on the other hand learn a lot in a short period of time and they may know more about the Internet than you do. They may be unblocking the sites as fast as you block them, therefore you may never know how to ensure that they are absolutely safe. 

Nonetheless, there are ways through which you can increase your parental control over your kids as they use the Internet. 

 

Child-proof Internet Parental Control Tips

One sure way through which you can ensure that your kids are safe as they use the Internet is by telling them what there is on the Internet and what you expect of them. Talking to your children will help a lot and it will always work in your favor if they first and foremost know that whatever measures you put in place is for their own protection. 

 

Enable all parental control features on the computer or any device that your child is using so that they may not be able to access anything that you do not want them to access. Do this to your children’s games as well so that as they play, they will not be able to access sites that are forbidden for children.

 

Ensure that the computer that your children are using is in an area or room that is hardly without people so that they will not be tempted to open sites that are forbidden. The computer can be placed in an open area of the house where everyone else is passing by to ensure the children will not be able to do anything funny on the Internet.

 

You can also enable activity logging on your computer or router so that you can monitor everything that your child is doing even on their mobile devices. You can always check out what they have been doing on the Internet as long as they are using this network. This way, you can ensure that they are not using another network and it will be very easy for you to keep track of most if not all their online activities. 

 

Enforce time limits on your router so that no one will be able to access the Internet at certain times of the day or night. Choose a time period when you are sure that your children might want to do funny things on the Internet as a way of preventing such from happening. 

 

Last but not least, you can physically lock up your router so that your children will not have any access to the Internet. This is a good thing to do if you do not want them to access the Internet at all.