Restricting kids online access
Ok so this isnt going to be that useful to many people but, if you have a mac, like i do, this may help a little.
I decided i needed some control over my 12 year old’s antics on the internet. I had banned her at least once from Bebo.com for mouthing off too much. However i felt i had better things to do than to keep on trying to work out all her hang outs & what her latest mischeef had resulted in. The standard parental controls, although better tgan your average PC didnt give me the ability to allow her a number of hours per day for named applications and the time window as well. I found a badly marketted app called. GoGoGoKids & decided that although it didnt look that well supported i would take a risk & try it out. Hey it works! I get to state the hours that she can access tge internet & the sites whilst also saying she can only go on between 4pm & 7pm. I also set a similar restriction for Msn messenger and can log every message in & out from that application (& yes her language was shocking). Theres a lot more you can do like log use of an ipod, video and image content aswell. I recon i have at least 6 months before she will work a way around these restrictions 
Peace.
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