What is parental control?

parental control is a feature that allows you to condition the access of children and teenagers to certain inappropriate content on the internet and manage their time daily screen. Currently, most children already know how to use the internet even before learning to read, having daily access to computers, smartphones or consoles. It has become a priority for adults to learn how to control the use of this equipment and teach younger people how to use the internet safely.

Parental control is available on almost all devices connected to the internet: computers, tablets, console or smartphones. 

It is important to warn adults that parental control is only a helping tool. Children must be educated and alerted to the dangers of the internet as nowadays young people have access to these devices everywhere, so controlling the PC at home is not enough protection.

Parental control allows you torestrict access to inappropriate contentfor children, block certain pages or programs, set time limits and even monitor the use. This functionality is offered by the servers themselves (windows, chrome, apple, IOS , android, playstation, among others) or by applications suitable for this purpose.

In this article we will explore3 applications. 

Parental control applications

Qustodio Parental Control 

This application works inreal time and allows parents to impose a time limit on daily technology use, filter access to inappropriate content and certain programs and games. With the premium version it is still possible to monitor social networks, calls and messages and track the device's location. You just have to download the application on your smartphone and on the devices used by your children. The installation process takes no more than 15 minutes and is very intuitive.

You have 4 payment plans available:

- free - 1 device protected

- small - 5 devices protected €42.95 

- medium - 10 devices protected €73.95

- large - 15 devices protected €106.95

Compatible with Windows / Mac OS / Android / iOS / Kindle / Nook

Kaspersky Safe Kids 

Similar to Qustodio, Kaspersky Safe Kids also helps to supervise children's mobile devices and computers. It is compatible with Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Very simple installation. Kaspersky Safe Kids includes an child app and a parent app, linked through your My Kaspersky personal account. After installing and associating the devices, you just need to define use restrictions depending on the child's age.

Kaspersky Safe Kids has two versions: free and premium. Both versions allow you tofilter contentonline, limit the time of use of applications and manage the daily useof devices and even blocking content considered harmful on YouTube.

When you purchase thepremium version (€14.95/year), you have access to some more features of the application: monitor social networks, schedule screen time , monitor the battery status of devices, alerts in real time and even location of children's devices.

Family Link 

Google's Family Link application allows you to control your children while using your smartphone or tablet. Parents can run Family Link on Android devices running version 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher and on iPhones running iOS 9 and higher.

Family Link must be installed on the adult's device as well as on the child's device and then the usage time limit and management of the content used can be established. Both adults and children must have Google accounts to associate with the application. 

Family Link allows you to manage the applications used and their downloads, locate your children's device in real time, receive activity reports from children and also set usage limits. 

This application is free and children only need to have an Android device. Adults can access the app via IOS or Android.

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