Pornography, drugs and other bad stuff: These apps protect your kids online

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Managing your children’s screen time and cyber safety is no easy feat, so it always helps to have a few useful apps and tricks to ensure your children are surfing safely on their e-devices.

A few years back, when my daughter was still a blithe 10-year-old, she yearned for a smartphone. My friends all have one, she would whine. Or the very Asian comparative line of “You know, so-and-so has one, she uses it for her schoolwork too and she’s only nine”.

Online parenting apps can do a multitude of things like screen messages, and alert you to which websites and apps are being installed and accessed. It can also offer location tracking as well as manage screen time to ensure there’s downtime for your kids, too. It’s worth noting that if you create a Google account for your child below 13 years, this app will give you fairly good visibility into their screen and Internet usage. Once they turn 13, Google allows them to leave the “family” and start their own account.

Net Nanny’s tracking feature allows you to set important locations such as home, Grandma’s, school and even tuition. You get alerts when your child arrives or leaves. Qustodio tends to be pricier than other apps but offers all-around protection and even monitors who is getting in touch with your kids on FacebookAvailable on iOS and Android, with yearly subscriptions from S$78.98 for five devices and S$208.98 for 15 devices.This parenting control app works on multiple platforms and has built-in content filtering, so it blocks up to four million inappropriate sites with Google’s Safe Search and YouTube’s Restricted Mode.

The icing on the cake is, with Kidslox, parents can also create time limits for specific categories, for example, putting a cap on your child’s gaming time. This can be done while allowing them to access other apps on the phone.

 

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