How do I set Parental contorl on Android devices?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Long story short, my six-year-old little sister just recently discovered Youtube (partly due to her leaning over my shoulders right when I was watching LPs on my phone) and my mom thinks it's a "cool idea" to get her a tablet.

So rather then sit around and watch this go horribly wrong real fast. I decided to do something about it.

So does anyone here know how I can set a parental control on my sister's soon to be tablet?

I'm kinda low on time since she's getting it in the mail tomorrow/Saturday.

[Meister]

If you want to do something about it educate your sister about internet use. Read up on search engines specifically for kids and set one as her starting page, give her the rundown on never giving out your name and address, and explain that the internet has a lot of fun stuff but also a lot of adult stuff and that if she sees something she doesn't understand or that scares her, to come running to you and you'll take care of it (or show her how to take care of it if it's just an error message or something).

Don't get me wrong, parental control is a pretty decent tool too, I can definitely think of a few sites I'd want to block right away in that situation, so definitely look into it, but your post is kind of giving off a vibe of "if only I set parental control to ON things will be alright forever" and, well, rather than sit around and watch this go horribly wrong...

[Aldurin]

It's too late. The moment she tasted the internet her humanity was forfeit.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

If you want to do something about it educate your sister about internet use. Read up on search engines specifically for kids and set one as her starting page, give her the rundown on never giving out your name and address, and explain that the internet has a lot of fun stuff but also a lot of adult stuff and that if she sees something she doesn't understand or that scares her, to come running to you and you'll take care of it (or show her how to take care of it if it's just an error message or something).

Don't get me wrong, parental control is a pretty decent tool too, I can definitely think of a few sites I'd want to block right away in that situation, so definitely look into it, but your post is kind of giving off a vibe of "if only I set parental control to ON things will be alright forever" and, well, rather than sit around and watch this go horribly wrong...

I'll try, so far she's fine on the computer.

[Meister]

Actually let me qualify that "decent tool" thing: a kid who's properly supervised and educated about the internet, which to some extent includes experiencing stuff on their own, shouldn't need any parental controls at all. Conversely, parental control alone doesn't help much unless you spend a lot of time setting it up and then you might as well invest that time in education.

What I think it's decent for is when you know for sure there's a site with seriously adult only stuff and there's a chance she might stumble across it on her own. And even then I'd err on the side of letting her stumble across things unless it's like beheading videos or seriously disturbing shit like that.

Oh by the way incredibly important point of education: teach her how to tell things that cost money on the internet apart from things that don't. Same goes for potentially hamful vs. safe but the money thing should be a huge priority.

e: I'm leaving "hamful" as it is, it makes the advice more delicious.

e2: also this isn't some covert way of hinting at teaching her about music/movie torrents, I mean microtransactions in free games and the like.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I get you're tryin to do the whole protective big brother thing but in situations like this it is best like meister said: fostering safe web habits and such will yield far better results in the long run than arbitrarily blocking or setting up excessive content filtering because just because. It really isnt hard to circumvent droid parental control setting anyhow.

[Nikose Tyris]

One thing I've done with my little sister, is we've set it up so that any email that hits her inbox/junk mail forwards a copy on to my email, so that I can watch for any messages she might receive that are sketch/in need of parental/brotherly interference. Hope and I agreed to do that, your sister might as well.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Thank you for the advice guys. She just got her tablet yesterday and so far things are going smoothly.