Jessica Streit, 5 Minutes for Mom contributor, is here to share her insights into Net Nanny through this post and giveaway. While we were compensated to write this post, our writers views and opinions remain her own.
I’m one of those parents who rarely lets her children on the internet. On the rare occasions where I let them, it’s always in the same room as I’m in and with the volume turned up so I can hear. However, there are still times when I worry about my children’s safety on the internet. Net Nanny is a product that would ease some of the worry and fears I have while my children are surfing the web.
Net Nanny offers you software to protect your children while they are perusing the internet. It works in real-time by categorizing every webpage that you or your child interacts with as it is being accessed. This is different than the typical product that claims to protect your children. Those other products categorize sites before you visit them which means that any changes that have been made to the site may not be part of the original scan and could provide unwanted material to your children.
Net Nanny offers an easy to use product that allows parents to manage the settings remotely. It offers alerts and reports to the parents. Parents can set time controls for each child as well as mask profanity from their children. Net Nanny also monitors instant messaging products as well so you can see exactly what your child and the person they are connecting with is saying.
My oldest son has virtual homework every day. There are days when I’m fielding calls for work, trying to get a healthy dinner on the table, and wrangling his younger brother into his soccer gear at the same time. It’s difficult for me to monitor everything my son is doing online. Parental controls such as those offered by Net Nanny would provide me with the comfort in knowing that he is better protected from viewing or interacting with unwanted material on the internet. Â
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Jessica Streit is a freelance writer and author of The Debt Princess. She shares her struggles with debt and the road to living a royal life on less.
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Great for time monitoring on line!
This would help set parameters for our Grandkids!!! Thanks for the chance….
I’d gift it to my daughter for her to use with my grandkids.
It would help me to know my daughter is being safe when she is online. I wouldn’t have to worry so much about where she goes.
My kids are getting older and spending a lot more time online. This would be very helpful.
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parental controls would let me feel more secure
I have a 13 year old so this would be great!
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this would ease my mind about what my grandchildren were doing online.
It would help me make sure my son does not go where he isn’t supposed to on the Internet!
I like that it will allow me to monitor what my kids are doing online.
It would show me the messages that are coming and going
It would make me feel better about letting my 6 year old use our computer.
My sweet boy is starting to pay more attention to the computer. I want to protect him from what he might find on there, so this would go a long way toward helping do that.
My son wants to research things on the internet and I’m afraid he’ll come across something inappropriate. . .this would help!
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I would finally know what’s going on around me!
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My mom keeps my kids in the afternoon–and is not computer savvy–she does not always watch what they are doing–so this would be a godsend!
With four kids ages 11-14, this would be wonderful. We have one computer in the kitchen where I try to monitor their use, but now that they all need to get on it quite a bit, I’m having to let them use the computer in the office, and internet safety is a concern.
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