Smart Parental Control essentials for parents

Let’s take a moment to push past fancy marketing terms or industry lingo and just talk about what, as a parent, we want for our kids in this digital age. We want our kids to safe online, not spend too much time on their devices, but we want them to explore age-appropriate sites, games, and content. We have busy lives, and we don’t want to have to manage a complicated service that needs just as much attention as it promised to monitor our kid’s online behavior.

COVID19 changed a lot about how we and our kids interact with the world. Suddenly, distance learning happened, play dates were limited to FaceTime or Zoom and kids, even in elementary school, started hanging out in online games, chats like Discord and on YouTube in levels not seen before the pandemic. In a quick minute, our kids were spending more time online and in more social scenarios online than before.

That’s where NETGEAR Smart Parental Control comes in to give a helping hand to parents trying to ensure their kids have that great online experience but with an assurance that the content they are viewing is appropriate and time spent online is time well spent.

Here at NETGEAR, we know that being a parent in the digital age is complicated and the last thing you want is a product that creates more headaches than it solves. Smart Parental Control is designed to make keeping your kids safe online simple.

COVID19 changed a lot about how we and our kids interact with the world. Suddenly, distance learning happened, play dates were limited to FaceTime or Zoom and kids, even in elementary school, started hanging out in online games, chats like Discord and on YouTube in levels not seen before the pandemic. In a quick minute, our kids were spending more time online and in more social scenarios online than before.

Download the app, and create a profile for each of your kids. You now have simple features at your fingertips to help you set healthy habits for online time:.

• Reward your kids for real-world activities and add more internet time
• See where your kids are spending their time online
• Make sure the content is age appropriate
• Block those sites they shouldn’t be viewing
• Help keep cyberbullies at bay
• Secure your kids’ private information
• Set bedtime rules with devices and Internet access

With My Time by NETGEAR (included with a subscription to Smart Parent Control), you can keep an eye on your devices when they are away from home. You can see how your kids spend their time online and make sure the rules you set up for at home apply when they are away.

With powerful parenting features and your rules, Smart Parental Control helps in creating consistent routines online and keeps an eye on online behavior like your very own internet nanny. Smart Parental Control helps you set expectations and reduce conflicts with your kids over screen time:

• Put your kids to bed without the argument of one more video, game etc.
• Have the tools to help with discipline and behavior
• Instantly shut off all devices in a room
• Shut off specific devices anywhere without having to physically remove the device
• Sleep soundly knowing cyberbullies and predators can’t easily access your children
• Take charge of your child’s development by turning off devices at night, encouraging good sleep and improved focus at school
• Create better balance and tranquility at home by minimizing conflict

Creating safe and healthy online habits doesn’t require you to do more work or constantly babysit some technology or app. That’s our job.

We’ve taken the headache out of keeping your children safe and healthy with screen time controls and good online habits, by providing simple but powerful features that you don’t have constantly update or change.

Adding Smart Parental Control to your parenting toolbox will help you create that safe, healthy childhood experience in the digital age, that your children will remember fondly.