Monitoring+Your+Kids+Online

**Shows what your children are doing online.**
 * Sets age-appropriate 'rules' for every child in your family.**
 * Helps you talk to your children about safe online behavior.**

https://onlinefamily.norton.com/familysafety/loginStart.fs

Windows Parental Controls: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/parental-controls.aspx

Snow Leopard Parental Controls: http://www.maciverse.com/snow-leopard-parental-controls.html

Verizon Parental Control Center: http://parentalcontrolcenter.com/

Google Safe Search: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35892

Safe Eyes Parental Control Software: http://www.internetsafety.com/safe-eyes-parental-control-software.php

Kids Watch Parental Control Software: http://www.kidswatch.com/

Instant Messaging Privacy Controls: http://www.wiredsafety.org/safety/chat_safety/im/spim.html

http://www.mysecurecyberspace.com/articles/site/tools.html

Parental Controls in Internet Explorer:

 * 1) Click on 'Tools' from the toolbar.
 * 2) Select the 'Content' tab.
 * 3) Find the 'Content Advisor' heading and click on the button labeled 'Enable.'
 * 4) Choose a category from the list. This list will present you with a variety of content categories that you may not want your children to see, such as sites depicting drug or alcohol use, violent images, nudity or bad language.
 * 5) Click on the category you want to control. Then use your mouse to move the slider below the list to set the degree of restriction you want on that type of site. the degree of restriction can range from no restriction at all to the complete blocking of those sorts of sites.
 * 6) Click 'OK.'
 * 7) Set a password. You will be prompted to do so at this point.

Parental Controls in Firefox:

 * 1) In order to set Firefox parental controls, you need to download an add-on to Firefox that will allow you to set parental controls.
 * 2) Click on Tools and then Add-Ons. Click on Get Add-Ons. Search "Parental Controls" and choose the Firefox parental controls add-on of your choice. Some recommended ones are: ProCon Latte, Glubble, Suricate, and FoxFilter.
 * 3) Install the add-on of your choice by clicking on Add To Firefox.
 * 4) Select your add-on, and click "Options".
 * 5) From here, you can set which explicit material you would like to block. For ProCon, go to "Main Filter" and check "Enable Explicit Material Filter". You can also edit the filter to block whatever you wish to be blocked. Once you have set Firefox parental controls, your child's internet experience should be a safe one!