Norton Family

Norton Family can be of great help to all parents who are searching for a children activity monitoring application that does not only create reports but can help build up good habits and encourage communication.

The application can be deployed on multiple computers using a single Norton account, which allows parents to monitor all supervised devices from a single place, namely a web-based dashboard. In fact, that is where parents start configuring the app by adding information about the parent and creating child accounts.

Obviously, the house rules are set and managed by the parent only. First of all, Norton Family can prevent children from oversharing private information on the Internet, such as social security and phone numbers, email addresses, or any other data.

The restrictions parents can apply vary. Web supervision allows them to either block access to websites with specific content or addressing a certain topic (violence, weapons, gambling, etc.), or just give a warning to the children but allow access anyway. The latter approach results in a valuable insight on the child's curiosities, which facilitates the road to a more sincere conversation.

One can apply web search content filters, monitor the social networking activity, accessed videos and launched applications. Moreover, time spent at the computer can be limited so a precise schedule can be created for every child. When the time is up, the computer can automatically be blocked, but the alternative is, again, to show trust to the children and have Norton Family just send a notification to the parent.

Parental control should be all about protecting children, not applying restrictions and blocking their freedom. Norton Family is oriented towards trust and open communication, rather than just rules and obedience. It makes it possible for parents to ensure data protection and make the Web a safer place while also monitoring their children's activity and control time spent using the PC.