I've been using something like Google Family Link, which works fine, except that it ties in to Google Family, along with YouTube, Play Store, Google One. I'd have to kick my sister out of the group to monitor another daughter and it means there's a limit on the number of children you have; such terrible design.

I do want to give them a little privacy and it gets to the appropriate level. Like restricting some apps at certain times, access to chrome but not xhamster. Locking it for certain periods of time and having them request more screen time past 4 hrs/day. Locking the phone whenever they've barricaded themselves in the room the whole morning.

I don't necessarily mind that they're watching YT or TikTok and such. I just want to kick them out of the doom scrolling cycle every now and then.

I'm sure you're doing it with good intentions, but it's a bit sad that children will now grow up with so few rights over their privacy.

As someone who grew up on the internet, I feel that the freedom it gave me to explore the world at my own pace allowed me to develop my personality. The thought that every second of my online life will be logged in an app and accessible to my parents honestly sounds horrible.

I respect every parent's decision regarding how they raise their children, but I invite you to reflect on whether growing up under this level of surveillance is something you would have wanted for yourselves.

I really like this idea of silent monitoring. Monitoring and talking about bad things seen weeks/months later. Because while I can block everything I want at home… there are other kids with free Internet access where everything is available and then I have no idea what’s happening.

They might as well get used to being spied upon now. Beat the rush! :)

If you add some remote command execution, you basically created some sort of a trojan ;-)

Really like to look of the product page!

Genius. Could this work with iPads?