A way to monitor kids spending time on the internet, I used to use it on my kids, but now there are too old for that now.
PC Spy
This is some website my wife found one day while looking around on creigslist for a babysitter.
Find A Baby Sitter
And of course here is the link to the talking to teens ebook that my wife bought. I have not looked at it myself, but my wife swears by it.
Talk To Your Teenager
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I found this post at families.com that I thought spoke beautifully to the issue. I've pasted the content as well as a link for you.
Our family uses Netflix and Gamefly (similar to Netflix but for video games) so I took a que from it and set up parental controls on each. The internet child proofing article is great too.
FLEXING THE PARENTAL MUSCLES
I have two teens in the house and like most they are extremely independent. When I'm near, and I try to be as often as possible, they know my rules and respect them, but as they get older and I'm away I worry about what they do and get away. Not that I don't trust them, I just remember what it was like.
Last week i decided to batten down the hatches and set-up the parental controls on everything I could in the house. For someone who is not too tech savvy it was pretty easy.
Here is what i did:
TV: no problem simple settings, thank god for the v-chip.
2 PC's: Nicki Bradley's article on Internet Child-Proofing was super helpful! Also windows Vista has some new parent features explained here.
Netflix.com: added the kids as user's and set-up ratings limits, so they can choose their own movies upto PG-13.
Gamefly.com: I got this account for the oldest on his last birthday (it's basically netflix for video games), he begged me. I didn't realize the site had parental controls which were very easy to set-up based on the game rating system. Some of the games these days I do not want in my house, now I know they won't be.
I'm really curious to see if they even notice what I've done. No complaints yet. I know i can't control them forever and they will be on there own soon enough, but i have a little more peace of mind now that I've set these up.
Here's a link to the whole thread: http://forums.families.com/flexing-the-parental-muscles,t109507&highlight=gamefly
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