How can access hours be restricted with airport extreme

I want to be able to stop my kids from accessing the internet and bogging things down during the day when working from home.  Is there an easy way to do this with an Airport base station network or by setting up a guest network?  I have tried using parental controls but that limits all computer use, not just online access hours.  Any help would be appreciated.

You do have a number of choices available to you to restrict access, either completely through AirPort's Access Control, or limiting what they will be able to access on the Internet. If your goal is to restrict them from particular sites or categories of sites, like P2P sharing torrents, one option is to use OpenDNS as your DNS provider. Through their service, you can easily configure what they can access or not.

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