Parental controls can be powerful tools for helping to protect children, but they are not a substitute for parental involvement and safety education. Online safety issues such as sexting and cyberbullying may involve technology, but are really behavior issues – and there is no piece of software parents can download that will fix problem behavior. Parental controls can be an important part of addressing online behavior problems by alerting parents to problem behavior, and blocking access to potentially problematic Internet resources.
Using Parental Controls to Address Specific Safety Issues:
