Further Password Protection

Hey everyone,
First of all I want to congratulate Apple on the new Apple TV Take2. Great update indeed.
Now, one thing I would like to request is an extension of the password protection in the parental controls. Specifically a way to require input of password to come out of screen saver. or a way to limit access to any and all videos without entering the password.
The reason for this would be to limit the ability of my small children (3 & 5yrs) from snagging the remote and paroozing trailers, movies etc. without mine or my wife's knowledge. We don't have anything bad on our appleTV, but some of our movies would be scary for our young kids to see.
I do understand this is not a fail safe method, but my young kids have ended up seeing trailers that were not good (horror) by accident.
The method we have used thus far is to just change the input on the TV and hide the remote but it's kind of annoying as the appleTV is our primary input for the TV. If this feature could be considered for further updates I would be exceedingly grateful.
Thanks,
Brad

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Hi Randy,
Thank you for looking into my problem.
I have looked into the Workbook.open property node. There is "password" on the property node. Please see attached diagrams.
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nails:
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nails:
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