Parental Controls doesn't seem to work as desired

I've read many threads on this topic, but no solutions that work for me yet. I've setup time limits for both kid's accounts. Initially, I thought they were working. However, after each account "timed out", and I allowed additional time using my admin ID (even 15 minutes extra), the time limits no longer seem to work, at least the bedtime login limits. At first, using exact same settings on each account, and AFTER bedtime, the first account that I had allowed extra time for (2 days ago!) allowed login after bedtime.
Next, I tried this on the second account, allowing only 15 minutes extra time. Now my son can login to that account after bedtime. Looks like I can't trust the bedtime controls.
I've disabled parental controls shut down, used command option PR to clear memory, still same problem
Has anyone been successful using parental controls, or do I just stop trusting it?!?

My daughter's time limits were restricted to 30 min per day only, however she found out that rebooting the Mac, 2 or 3 minutes before her time expired, allowed her to start again with a new 30 min session again... over and over.
Time limits file gets corrupted more often than expected, so I solved my issue with the time limits by recreating the file, as follows:
a) Login with your credentials, assuming your accounts has Full Admin rights.
b) Launch a 'Terminal' session. Mine was located at Finder -> Applications ->Utilities -> Terminal
c) Login as root using your credentials with the following command:
Last login: Tue Mar 23 21:20:02 on console
imac-3155:~ myadminuser$ sudo su -
Password:
imac-3155:~ root#
d) Now, as root, go to the following directory:
imac-3155:~ root# cd /Library/Managed Preferences/mydaughtersname/
imac-3155:mydaughtersname root# ls -al
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 10 root admin    340 May 18 20:49 .
drwxr-xr-x   3 root admin    102 May 18 20:45 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin     86 May 18 20:45 com.apple.applicationaccess.new.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin     81 May 18 20:45 com.apple.dashboard.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin   1598 May 18 20:45 com.apple.familycontrols.contentfilter.plist
-rw-r--r--    1 root admin      398 May 18 20:45 com.apple.familycontrols.timelimits.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin     80 May 18 20:45 com.apple.familycontrols.logging.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin    226 May 18 20:45 com.apple.iChatAgent.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin     75 May 18 20:45 com.apple.mcxprinting.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin     97 May 18 20:45 com.apple.systempreferences.plist
-rw-r--r--   1 root admin 11821 May 18 20:45 complete.plist
e) Delete the file containing time limits config
mac-3155:Managed Preferences root# rm com.apple.familycontrols.timelimits.plist
f) Logout from Terminal
g) Logout from your account
h) Now my daughter was able to log back in and the 30 minutes Time Limit was Up and running working as expected, regardless how many times she tried to reboot the Mac...
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