The Best Parent Controls When Using Windows Xp

Do you feel guilty at the thought of monitoring every move that your kids make on the internet? I didn't really understand the need for parent controls that would work with my XP system. My eyes got opened up really quick when I walked into my family room one day after school and saw my son playing a video game that he had projected on our large screen tv.

I sat down and he was showing me all of the cool things about the game, how he got points, what he had to do to extend the time, and then he told me that he was playing with a couple of his best friends.

I assumed that they were all playing the same game not that they were all playing together right then and there.

So, I understood that each kid was playing from his own home on his families computer but somehow, they were all logged into the same game and playing against each other.

Then, one of the kids had to get off and go somewhere with his family. I was shocked to learn that the boys just brought in someone else to take their friend's place. They didn't even know this new person that they were playing with. They had no idea where they were from, how old they were, nothing.

I started to get concerned but didn't want to make a big deal out of it. I decided to talk to the parents of the other kids to see what they thought of it.

Apparently, I was the first parent to really understand what this meant and the other parents were as shocked as I was.

We all agreed that we needed to find a parent control that would work with our XP systems and better monitor who our kids were playing and communicating with. We each talked to our sons and tried to make them understand that what they were doing could be dangerous to them without scaring them. We explained that they absolutely could not have anything to do with people that they met through the internet.

As a group, we found software that appeared to provide good parent controls and would work with XP systems. It provided a great opportunity to try it FREE for 7 days and for 1 price we could use it on 2 computers. We tried it, loved it and would never be without it again.

By: Annie Falconer

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I am passionate about keeping my kids safe on the internet and was so lucky to find this software to be able to monitor every site that they go to and everyone that they communicate with online. I want to pass the word about how parental controls for XP are available and affordable for every parent.