jaydeltathree

Limiting children's computer time

Apparently I have created a monster. It seems like all my children want to do is spend time on the computer. I also have to face facts though. For some reason I have been wanting to think of a computer as a business machine, a productivity machine, when I have a computer in the living room! That's not for business, that's strictly for entertainment. But my daughters spend a lot of time on it, and they get beastly if they're interrupted from their reverie. We don't have television per se, as you can't get any stations on our TV, but now the girls are watching television shows directly from web sites, so its the same thing.

All of a sudden it hit me, there's probably software out there to limit the amount of time that kids can be on the computer. This thought hit me immediately after the thought that I could probably write some kind of code to accomplish this. That shows how lazy I am. Anyway, I got online, and I found a website called Software Time, that markets a program called Computer Time. It seemed to do what I was interested in, so I plan to talk to Carolina about it. They also have a 14 day trial, which is good. We are currently using Glubble, but it leaves some things to be desired. This Computer Time program is supposed to do some Internet limiting too, so that's worth looking into. That's another reason why I thought about writing my own program, but that takes loads of time. Basically though, I'm thinking that a internet limiting program is basically just a firewall with some type of web interface. I also found a site with lots of different programs to choose from, but I don't have time to do through all of them.