I've been wanting to block YouTube for a while. The site in and of itself isn't that bad, but it's not a site I want my kids surfing. Unfortunately, my almost 13 year old loves it, and showed it to my 10 year old, who loves it, and showed it to my 7 year old.
Occasionally, I find them searching up things they shouldn't be- nothing dirty, but stuff 7, 10, and 13 year olds don't need to be looking up.
Today when I was at the school, Chris's teacher mentioned the story he emailed her never arrived last week. I got his password, and checked- and found you tube emails. With some quick work, I found the little snot has his own account, and he's NOT nice in it.
He's acting like a pre-teen boy, making inappropriate comments. I found his user name, requested a password change, and disabled the account.
Unfortunately, that doesn't block access to the site, just removes the account.
Now, I like YouTube, and would like access to it myself on my computer (which they can't use- it's locked down at start up, and only me and hubby have the password), but I want their computer denied access.
Does anyone have any idea how to do that, short of buying some nanny software? They run XP with a wireless router. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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It is right on your own system, look under your computer control. all puters have them.
The computer is currently in the nook- right between the dining room and kitchen, but we did talk about moving it into the living room, or into the den with Nick.
The parental block isn't a bad idea, and frankly, I don't mind limiting what they can access all around. Since it's a kid-only computer, blocking Gather doesn't bug me, since I have my own CPU.
try this site.here is some info coped from it
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I had to disable this because I couldn't go any where. She needs to be able to go to sites the school uses and her e-mail so the tool is of "NO" use if she would have to have the password.
There must be something that blocks just the unwanted sites.
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Please ping me if you have somthing that really works and does try blocking everything.
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