Parental control software

Hi - my 10 year old daughter has been experiencing cyber bullying and I want to install parental control software on her Macbook.

Any recommendations?

I'm really beside myself right now!

Thanks for your help.

saramerica said:

Hi - my 10 year old daughter has been experiencing cyber bullying and I want to install parental control software on her Macbook.

Any recommendations?

I'm really beside myself right now!

Thanks for your help.

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Parental Controls are built right in. You can enable them through the Accounts applet in System Preferences.

Have you checked the options under 'System preferences> accounts> parental controls'? They have a fair number of settings you can lock down and OS X Leopard (due in September) is going to add even more.

I'm looking for the kind of thing that tracks everything my kid is doing. A parental NSA sort of software, if you will.

Oh, and I meant to say - she has her OWN macbook (which I just confiscated for a month). That's part of the problem. I want to get this parental CIA software before I give it back to her.

You can use a key logger, that records EVERY keystroke made.... Though I don't quite understand how that would protect your daughter. I really feel for you though. I have two daughters (much younger than yours... with VERY limited web access, as in only 2 websites), and can hardly imagine the heartache if they were to be bullied, especially within their own home.

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Oh, and I meant to say - she has her OWN macbook (which I just confiscated for a month). That's part of the problem. I want to get this parental CIA software before I give it back to her.

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If she is being bullied, and is the victim... why on earth are you punishing her for being picked on????? Maybe I'm not understanding? Is she doing the bullying???

It's unfortunately been a two way street. She said "I was just defending myself" when I confronted her last night, but I told her there's a big difference between standing up for yourself and sinking to someone else's level.

Fortunately the school took a really serious view when I told them about it this morning - spoke to all the kids involved, including my daughter, and is calling all the parents.

BTW, I spoke to the detective in charge of cyber crime at my local police dept and he recommended spector soft.com for monitoring software.