How Do You Monitor Your Kids Online Activity?
I just asked a privacy question about the electronic rights of my middle school kid and surprisingly received almost unanimous affirmation that monitoring kids activity through high school is the norm.
I am an IT professional and know how to keep track of the activity of my children and prevent activity where necessary. The parents of my kids friends don’t. I am appalled at the ignorance of some very educated parents in regard to monitoring (or how to monitor) their kids online activity.
I am very interested in your answers to this.
What measures do you have in place to monitor your kids online activity?
Could your kid get past your security if they wanted?
Lastly, are any of you getting flack from your kid because you’re doing this?
I have Windows Vista on my system. It has AWESOME security features, automatically records anythign I tell it to. Since it is built in, and woudl require her having access to my password that she can NOT break to change anythign, no she can;t get past it. And I don;t get any flack form her abotu it. She has teh choice of keeping her butt off of my computer if she doestn liek things the way they are. Her father and I are divorced but he monitors her just abotu as strictly at home so she is used to it.
Put the computer near the kitchen.
I use Spector. It creates a video playback of screen shots. I also use Norton parental controls. The spector is my fav though. My kids cannot deny what I show them on video.
wow thats a major no no thats really an invasion of privacy and gonna cause some major trust issues.