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Q: Why should I monitor my computer?
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Piece Of Mind
As a parent, we go through hundreds of emotional changes while our children grow up. Sending them off to school for the first time or sending them for their first sleepover at a friends or relatives house can be a turning point in our parental lives. All of these "first times" can cause anxiety because we feel that we don't have control of the situation. If you were able to monitor your children as they participated is these activities, to ensure that they were OK, would you feel a little more comfortable?
As our children grow up, new anxieties emerge from new experiences being made available everyday. A little bit of control however, is being given back to us in the form of technology. Computers today offer a whole new form of experience for our children and not all of them are good. Software today however allows us as parents to monitor these activities to ensure are children are safe from harmful material and sexual predators.
Parents should know what is available to them as tools to keep their children safe. Tools such as:
Being able to block particular websites
Being able to monitor what their child is doing on the Internet in next to real-time
Recording of entire chat messages
All this and much more is available, and the best part is, it's all invisible to the child.
