Parental controls for teen

Question about parental control account: I would like to be able to check logs and block adult content on the web browser but I want my teen to be an administrator so he can change his own wallpaper and certain other settings. Is there any way for me to check logs without blocking all of his other admin capabililities?
Thanks.

you can't have it both ways. if a user is an administrator then that user can do anything he/she wants to the computer: turn parental controls on/off, remove logs, change admin passwords etc. you should have parental controls enabled on that account. and a user doesn't need to be admin to be able to change the desktop background. you simply have to allow that user to use system preferences. you can do that from system preferences-.parental controls->system.

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Parental Controls for Safari

Does anyone know of an effective parental control for OX 10.3 for Safari to not allow my teens on inappropriate web sites?

I can't remember what we did for our child in Panther but what happens when you go to User Accounts in System Preferences and click on Limitations for a User other than the Admin? I know that we were able to create a User Account with more limited access in 10.3.9 for our young child.
We're about to test out KidsBrowser (because of its graphical interface for young kids) but the same company makes CutX for Safari for teens. (More info at company's site here and you can download a trial version.) CutX will allow you to limit objectionable websites (based on certain keywords and URLs) but it doesn't help with other critical children's internet safety issues such as email and especially chat access and transmission of personal information.
You can also look at What's New in TigerFamily Controls which has many more parental control options. You can even enable parental controls from within Safari and limit email access by specific address in the User Preferances pane.
(Just in case you haven't checked them out already, there's more information about the issue in general at GetNetWise (including information on internet safety products) and NetSmartz.
I don't envy you - it's a lot simpler doing this for our younger-aged children.
Good luck!

Web Parental Controls for 10.2.8?

I'm giving my old G3 iBook to my grandkids, but I notice OS 10.2.8 does not have the parental controls for the internet for users like later versions. Unfortunately, this computer barely crawls if I update the system and had to reinstall 10.2.8. I tried to get an older version of BumperCar or MacMinder, but neither are available any longer for the older systems. Any ideas of another program, or any other way I can control web pages the kids visit?? (This machine: late 2001 dual USB white iBook G3-300 with Mac OS 10.2.8) Thanks if you can help.

Look at some of the apps on this page http://www.pure-mac.com/censor.html
Also look at NetNanny @ http://www.guardchild.com/netnanny.php
 Cheers, Tom

Parental controls for windows 7?

hi,
how do you get parental controls for windows 7 on skype? i have tryed to look online for the answer but i came out blank. please help!!

you need to download a third party application.such as AthTek Skype Recorder.http://www.skype-record.com

Parental controls for the itouch 2nd generation

How do you go about setting up parental controls for an itouch?

I know this is not helpful at all
But if your kid has half a brain he'll (or she'll) be able to get past parental locks.
Instead of ignoring and blocking something you think is a problem how about you talk to them about it.
*Does a load of good.*
but if your INTENT on doing this, you can easily find the parental control options in the touch's settings. But i assure you they will be able to get past it.

Parental Controls for Droid X

Are there parental controls for the Droid X. Need to limit what websites children can go to.
Thanks

@ Kooshie
I have verified Content Filters works on Droid and all other Android devices for web browsing.
The choices for web browsing control are similar to those used for movies:
Ages 7+
This material contains little or no violence, no strong language, no drug use, limited alcohol or tobacco use, no modeling content, little or no sexual dialogue and situations and no themes of a mature nature. This content is considered suitable for children age 7 and above and parents can comfortably allow this content to be accessed by children 7 and above unattended.
Ages 13+
This material may contain mild coarse language, moderate violence, mildly suggestive lingerie, drug use depicted without being designed to encourage use, some sexuality or suggestive dialogue or themes that may not be appropriate for younger children. This content would be considered suitable for children 13 and above by most parents. Parents are cautioned against allowing children under 13 to access or view this content unattended.
Ages 17+
This content may contain one or more of the following: crude language, graphic violence, sexual situations, criminal activity, drug abuse, sexual situations without nudity or themes that may not be appropriate for younger youth. Many parents would consider this material unsuitable for children under 17 and parents are strongly cautioned against allowing children under 17 to access or view this content.
Filters Off
Turning off the content filter provides access to all content accessible through your mobile phone, including content that you may consider objectionable due to the ages of your children or your personal desire to avoid certain types of content.
Please note: Some content may require additional authentication and/or age verification prior to access, download, use or purchase.
Also note that there is a page to read up on android content filters specifically: http://www.parentalcontrolcenter.com
Here is the android article: http://parentalcontrolcenter.com/parents/content-filtering-for-android-devices/

Using Safari Parental Controls for Myspace

We use Parental Controls for my daughter's MacBook running Leopard 10.5.6. With MySpace, it restricts her at each new page. For instance, mail, photos, her home page etc, we have all manually added so they work OK. BUT, if she gets a new friend, which happens all the time, we have to add those pages as well. It is quite cumbersome and difficult to keep up with. Is there a better way? I would like to just approve the whole site, but it won't let me do that.

The problem is that a lot of these programs actually don't get the proper ratings. This is a bug. For instance:
Take a look at the app for OpenTable. It's rated 4+. But if you go into the app and click "About" in the menu, then go to "help and Support," it pops you into an embedded web browser that is directed to the Opentable website. With a little bit of work, you can get the browser to navigate to Google or somewhere else that will give you carte blanche to see any site, including ****. I have watched this happen with family members, and it reveals a serious defect in the parental controls portion of the iOS ratings system.
Here's how to fix If a browser is embedded in an app, even for reading local HTML, the app gets a 17+. The only ways to avoid the 17+ rating are: (1) use Safari to open HTML pages/links (which honors parental control settings); or (2) restrict all browser activity to either local files or a very select set of remote web pages on a trusted site.

Parental Controls for Mail does not present all emails to approver

Those of you who use Parental Controls to manage your children's use of email via Mail know that you can restrict emails they receive to ones sent by people on a whitelist, only. If someone not on the whitelist sends a message, it should be first sent to you for approval, after which it is let through to your child in Mail.
That's the theory. Putting this into practice I sent messages from my various email accounts to my son's email address. None of those that weren't on the whitelist got through--that's good. However, I received permission requests for only two of those messages. The one sent from my work account simply disappeared--that's bad.
Do any of you have a sense of how robust this part of Parental Controls is? I did file a bug report on this, by the way.

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Parental controls for internet access

I would like to be able use my macbook pro to manage our 4 children's access to the internet. Most importantly times of access but also some internet policing.
We have an airport extreme base station and airport express.
The children all have iPads of varying age and model number.
Can this be done and if so how?

You can set restrictions in the devices. Settings > General > Restrictions > Enable Restrictions. You would do this on each of their devices. Be sure you use different passcodes for each device and make them strong passcode. Write them down somewhere and keep them hidden so your children cannot find them.
If the kids also have access to a computer, then you can control it by opening Users & Groups and creating Managed user accounts for them to use. Clicking on Parental Controls will allow you to determine what they have access to.

Best parent controls for iPads and iMac running on BT Home Hub

Hi,
Despite the great sounds coming from the big ISPs about parental controls, they're determined to make a really simple concept absolutely impossible.
Firstly, I'm not trying to lock-down my family's access to the net, but I have two boys aged around ten, and being boys they're inquisitive, so are probably getting closer to stumbling across some seriously dodgy content... And I want to try to prevent that... It should not be hard. If I could limit the times they were online, just if browsing gets out of hand (they're kids remember) that would be a handy option as well.
So on to the technical details... We have a standard BT broadband account that comes into a new BT Home Hub. This is currently our WiFi point. We run a laptop, two ipads, iphones and an ipod touch on Wifi, and have a desktop ethernet'd to the Home Hub. BT offer a downlaodable Family Protection package that allows user accounts to be configured, but this does not appear to work on an iPad or Touch.
Very shortly, we're about to retire the PCs from family life and install an iMac. So we're getting into a properly Mac environment. I was also considering installing a Time Capsule for back-ups and had considered stringing this in series on the Home Hub, then networking all of the Apple devices off of the Time Capsule.
Ideally, the controls would be at a us level, or at least by device. I've come across some App options, but this seems like an unecessary layer of proprietary complexity.
So how Do we deploy parental controls? The simplest option, that BT have failed to realise, would be a network solution that filters everything coming into the house and stops it before it even hits the Home Hub - but that doesn't appear to be an option.
So what options do we have? Any ideas? I had heard suggestions that I could manage user control via the Time Capsule, but that's proving hard to confirm.
Happy to supply any further information to help with this query.
In summary, how do I stop **** getting onto my boys' iPads/Touchs... Should be simple????
Cheers, Mombee.

Sorry, but the Apple routers do have any type of parental controls on them.
If you have not already done so, you might want to take a look at the parental control options offered by OpenDNS.
OpenDNS Parental Control ...

If I were to set up Parental Controls for the only user on a MacBook, would I need to create another, separate account?

Parental controls

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It is not possible to set parental control on the administrator account, so you have two choices: create a new user account to apply parental control or use the Guest user for that. You can set parental control in System Preferences -> Parental Control

Parental Controls for MacBook Pro

Hello,
My name is Matthew and this is a question coming from someone who currently does not have a MacBook Pro but is interested in getting one. I have an iPhone and it is working very well for me. I have a friend of mine put on a password to limit app installment and to remove usage of Safari in order to keep me away from inappropriate sites. That is the biggest reason I really love the iPhone. However, iPhones and MacBooks are very different. I am wondering how the parental controls work on a MacBook. Having used a Windows 8.1 computer in the past I ran into some issues. I want to use the computer strictly for gaming on Steam. I'll probably use it for school later on, but for now it's just for gaming. With the Windows computer, in order to limit internet usage and such you need to create a child account and set what you want to be blocked. That's all fine and dandy. The only issue with that is that every time something has an update, an administrative password needs to be put in. With me myself not having the administrative password, I need to find the person who does in order to play the game I am craving to play at the time. This is a huge hassle. I don't want to get the administrative password myself because then I can just log onto the administrative account and switch the settings. So what I tried next was getting an antivirus program with built in parental controls and set those so that even the administrative account was limited. However, it's just as easy to create a new account that doesn't have those limitations until they have been set. So that didn't work either. I was given the suggestion to contact my internet provider and have them limit internet access, but I have multiple computers in the house and only want this one to have the limitations.
So the big question comes in here; are these issues going to be the same on a MacBook or do the parental controls work differently in such a way that there wouldn't be all these workarounds?

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Parental controls for ipod touch?

Is there any way to prevent internet access while using the ipod touch. We would like to purchase an ipod touch for a young relative but she is not permitted to use the internet or receive emails. Is it possible to eliminate this feature?

i guess they could restore the ipod, hence removing the parental controls. (but all the other settings would need re-loading - real pain in the neck)
or guess the password put on them (4 digits, could take a while but would be possible)
if it's a home network then you can block their access more easily by securing the network and not allowing them to have the password. it's when they're out and about and can access public networks that the parental controls would necessary.

Parental controls for older child

I have an older child who is the admin on his Mac. He has his own iTunes acct and I know the pw. He also charges all purchases to his own bank card. I need to monitor his iTunes usage, to find out what he is watching and reading. I don't care about explicit music. What is the best way for me to do this monitoring ? I assume there is no other way to utilize any type of parental control that only i can control. Obviously I cannot use itunes parental controls since he is the admin on his Mac. If I decide just to trust him, well, that could fail because he could delete content before I see it. The only thing i can think to do is to change the bank card back to my own, but is there is free inappropriate content? If there is, will this content show up in any list as having being viewed? I'm sure you know the type of content I am concerned about. It starts with the letter p. I realize that he can always change the bank card back selectively, but I've got that part figured out another way.
Thank you.

I have an older child who is the admin on his Mac. He has his own iTunes acct and I know the pw. He also charges all purchases to his own bank card. I need to monitor his iTunes usage, to find out what he is watching and reading. I don't care about explicit music. What is the best way for me to do this monitoring ? I assume there is no other way to utilize any type of parental control that only i can control. Obviously I cannot use itunes parental controls since he is the admin on his Mac. If I decide just to trust him, well, that could fail because he could delete content before I see it. The only thing i can think to do is to change the bank card back to my own, but is there is free inappropriate content? If there is, will this content show up in any list as having being viewed? I'm sure you know the type of content I am concerned about. It starts with the letter p. I realize that he can always change the bank card back selectively, but I've got that part figured out another way.
Thank you.

Cannot enable parental controls for Guest if FileVault enabled

FileVault is enabled on my Mac. When I subsequently enabled Find My Mac, the Guest User account was automatically enabled, as it is required for Find My Mac's theft recovery feature. When I accessed the Guest User in the Users & Groups Preferences panel, the "Enable parental controls" option for Guest User was greyed out. Thus, anyone with physical access to my computer, such as my kid, can gain unfettered access to the Internet without a password.
I did find a solution. I unchecked the "Allow guests to log in to this computer" box in the Preferences panel. This caused the "Enable parental controls" box to become checked (seems to be a bug). I then checked the "Allow guests to log in to this computer" box, which caused the "Enable parental controls" box to become unchecked. At this point, the "Enable parental controls" box was no longer greyed out, and I was able to check it.
System: Late 2014 Retina iMac with 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB memory, OS 10.10

Update: Although the method above appeared to enable parental controls, they do not work. When I log in as Guest (causing the computer to reboot into Safari-only mode), I am able to access a very well-known adult website (play*** dot com).

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