Clearing Parental Control Log

One of our kids got into some web sites he should not of - and thanks to the Parental Log, we've had a l-o-n-g conversation and we a teachable moment was to be had. I would now like to clear the logs, purging my computer of icky-ness. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance....Fourwoods

I'm not sure about that...I checked on my husbands MBPro in the Library/Support......folder and there is but one folder in that as well: Airport (which is the same folder in that location on our other computers). There must be a slight difference in our machines? Considering he had no clue that his actions were being monitored (actually, I did not either..I must have set that up long ago and stumbled upon this log looking for something else) I know he cleared the browser history but that's it. Since I had the log set to record only the past week, I wonder if the items will automatically clear themselves after one week? The offending date's one week anniversary will be this Sunday so I'll post back. Let me know if you come up with anything else....Thanks! kraen

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