How To Monitor Your Kid Computer Activities Without Buying Parental Monitoring Software

Parental monitoring software such as WebWatcher, eBlaster and Net Nanny can only act as a temporary roadblock on protecting your kids from the 'junk' on the internet. It is a common misconception among parents and teachers that parental monitoring software could serve as the 'Internet Bodyguard'. Monitoring, blocking and restricting your kids would only make them more curious. Today's kids are more computer literate than their parents; it will not be long before your kids will be able to figure out how to bypass the Parental monitoring software. If you tried to goggle the term 'disable eBlaster', you will see that there are hundreds of results that will guide you to disabled the eBlaster Parental monitoring software.

Here are a few tips on how to see some of the basic feature of the parental monitoring software such as the Internet Browsing History without buying any monitoring software. The Internet Browsers actually store all the browsing activities; you just need to know where to look for it:

To see all web pages visited using Microsoft Internet Explorer:
Go the ‘View’ menu and choose 'Explorer bar' and then choose 'History’. The internet sites that have been visited in the last 3 weeks (default value). Alternatively you can do 'Cltr+H' when the Internet Explorer window is in focus.
If the web sites require a login, then there will be a web cookies associated with that site. To view the cookies in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, select from the menu: Tools > Internet Options > 'General' Tab > Under 'Temporary Internet files' click 'Settings' button > click 'View Files' button

To see all web pages visited using Firefox:
Go to the History menu and choose 'Show in the Sidebar'. The internet sites that have been visited in the last 9 days (default value). Alternatively you can do 'Cltr+H' when the Firefox window is in focus. If the web sites require a login, then there will be a web cookies associated with that site. To view Cookies in the Firefox browser, go to: Tools > Options > 'Privacy' tab > 'Show Cookies' button.


To see the local documents/files viewed history:
Click Start ->> documents
You will see the last 15 recently viewed files on that computer.

We recommend that parents should spend more time with the kids and try to get to know them better to encourage open parent-child communications. Maybe even suggest their kids to pick up a hobby like playing a musical instrument (Piano, guitar, drum, and violin) or something else they might be interested in.

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