The constant growth in the use of new technologies by children and adolescents has led to the emergence of various parental control applications. These applications are designed to provide families with a useful solution for controlling the content and usage time of all children’s electronic devices.
Parental control applications are very powerful solutions that allow parents to:
- Block other applications.
- Monitor their children’s activity on different devices.
- Establish Internet connection schedules.
- Control calls and messages, being able to block contacts.
- Determine the exact location of their children.
- Serve as a ‘panic button’ in case of serious problems.
In short, the usefulness of parental control lies in:
Monitor children’s activity when browsing the Internet, controlling which sites they visit and on which social networks they interact to prevent children and adolescents from visiting sites that are not suitable for their age, as well as avoiding at all costs that children maintain contact with strangers and/or potentially dangerous people.
Prevent prolonged use of the Internet on children’s electronic devices so that they respect homework schedules, as well as promote outdoor play.
Social networks are the main reason for these applications in which children and adolescents are exposed to the community of the social platform and where they can contact anyone. In this way, parental control applications keep parents calm since their children will be safe from concepts such as ‘grooming’ (sexual abusers) and ‘cyberbullying’ (verbal stalkers).
Certain parental control applications such as FamilyTime, also allow you to establish specific locations where the application informs you if your children are there or track the location of their mobile devices.
Other parental control applications that perform similar functions are:
- Qustodio
- Kaspersky SafeKids
- Xooloo App Kids
- Parenty Parental Control
- Kid’s Shell
- Dinner Time
- Norton Family
- Kuukla
- Parental Control
- Kid’s Place
If you want to rest easy when your children browse the Internet, move around social networks, or leave home alone, this type of application is for you.
From díde we want to convey to mothers and fathers that the use of new technologies is positive, as long as people know how to use them correctly, in order to avoid acquiring an addiction to new technologies.
