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  • Apr 13, 2006
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  • The excellent parental controls are always part of MSN. They give you a long list of items (drugs, language, alcohol, porn, firearms, etc...), and you just click whatever you deem inappropriate. Then, once a week, you get sent a report, showing all the sites the child visited, or was blocked from visiting.
    scottalex had this to say on Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 2
    Part 2: Dealing with Parental Controls
  • Excellent article. However, the solution regarding Safari and Google is quite unsatisfying. This is my second day in Apple World. We just got our son an iMac -- all our other computers are PCs. Up to now, our house was on MSN DSL, with excellent MSN Parental Controls. MSN lets me set parameters for language and images... and then the child is free to cruise the Internet or Google for school research. If he stumbles onto something inappropriate, MSN blocks it. This is an excellent system. However, Safari has discovered our home's wireless and superceded my MSN. I don't understand the Safari Family approach of pre-approving every single site a child might need. Practically, this is impossible. And to suggest simply turning off controls during school research on Google defeats the point. Isn't there another approach? Or, can I still use my MSN? Thanks -- Scott
    scottalex had this to say on Apr 12, 2006 Posts: 2
    Part 2: Dealing with Parental Controls