Good parental control software and settings

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Good parental control software and settings

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There are lots of parental controls that parents can use on both the PC and the Mac. Some of my favorites are PureSight PC and ScreenRetriever. They allow you to get real time information about what your kids are doing online. On the Mac, all of your parental controls are built right in, including something called a Weblog, which lets you see the entire history of where your kids have been browsing, even if they private browse or clear their history, you’re still going to know what it is that they’re doing. You just need to be the administrator of that computer. You have to remember though, with parental controls, we are just setting expectations for our kids and not keeping them safe online. They can always go to another computer at a friend’s house, at school, or even the public library and access things that we don’t want them to be seeing. So please, make sure if you’re installing parental controls, you let your kids know that you’re doing it and why so that they know what your expectations are of them.

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Lori Getz, M.A.

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Since 2004 Lori has worked as an Instructional Technologist in Los Angeles, CA. She has a Master of Arts in Educational Technology from San Diego State University and is certified by isafe.org as an Internet Safety Specialist. In September 2008 Lori founded Cyber Education Consultants and began speaking to students, parents, and educators about Internet safety, security and ethics.  Since that time Lori has reached out to Internet users across the world!  Her mission is simple- to help bridge the gap between a young generation of digital natives and their parents and teachers. 

Today, Cyber Education Consultants provides workshops, professional development and consulting services to more than 100 schools across the country.

Lori is an educator, mother, and Internet safety expert.  She has appeared on the "Dr. Phil Show," "Today," "HLN," “Dr. Drew” and several other local news and radio programs (including the Ryan Seacrest show on KIIS FM).  She often lectures live, speaking to parents, teachers and students. Lori has been published in several areas including as an online expert for momlogic.com and kidsinthehouse.org.  Most recently was featured in Rachel Simmons’ new edition of “Odd Girl Out” and Lucie Hemmen’s, Ph.D “Parenting a Teen Girl.” She is currently working with the “I Have a Plan” series to develop a children’s book on online safety.  Her insight comes from both her professional and personal life working with children, tweens and teens.  

 

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