Parental Controls don't work correctly under Yosemite

I'm having some serious issues with Parental Controls under Yosemite, issues serious enough that Parental Controls prove to be worthless under Yosemite as currently implemented.
This is a clean install of Yosemite upgraded to current version 10.10.1.
Symptoms:
Using the child's account with parental controls active, when the parental control blocks a website, a dialog comes up offering to allow the parent/admin to approve the site and add it to the exceptions list. This is nice! Unfortunately, approving the website DOES NOT add it to the exceptions list... ever. We discovered this when launching Keynote, which kept trying to connect to an akamai.net server (probably an update check). We would sign in with the admin account to clear the server, then it would pop up with the same dialog box again. We did discover that I _can_ add the site via the Parental Controls prefpane, but kind of a pain. Why have a dialog box pop up if it doesn't actually work.
Time limits don't seem to be obeyed at all in Yosemite, child played on his account for 2 hours despite being set to 1/2 hour a day.
Some apps just lock up on launch (I do NOT use any app controls). I suspect (but can't demonstrate with certainty) that they are accessing blocked websites in the background. Two of the hanging apps are Pages and Keynote (current versions), apps I would expect to behave properly.
For now, I have disabled parental controls, as they are worthless in this form and just make for a frustrating experience for all. It has been disappointing that a feature that used to come in handy (mostly the time limits) has become completely worthless now.

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