According to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics in its “Survey on Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Homes” reflect that from the age of 10 a large percentage of children already have their first mobile phone. These new generations can abuse the use of everything that a smartphone can offer them, but during vacation times, especially summers and Christmas, this excess can multiply.
With the Christmas holidays knocking on the door, it is crucial that we look for the possible measures so that the use that they give to the mobile is limited.
Manage the time they use the mobile
This new generation of children who were not born with bread, but with a smartphone under their arms, pose an extra challenge for fathers, mothers and guardians. In an increasingly technological world, they cannot be completely deprived of contact with technology, as it has become commonplace, but we all know that there are many risks on the Internet, and more in cases of minors who may end up arriving to places and contacting people who should not and can put them in danger.
In this sense, certain parental control applications can be a good method of control and even extra protection to prevent them from ending up arriving where they should not. The use of these apps can be understood as additional help that goes where parents cannot go, but it should not be the only supervision.
Applications to limit the time of use
Since a person responsible for minors cannot always directly supervise what they are doing with their mobile phones, you can help with a series of applications with which to have more control over how much time they spend with their mobile phones and what they are doing with it.
One of the most complete is Google Family Link, available for both Android and iOS. In it, you can consult activity reports that will tell you how much time your children spend in each application (similar to the digital well-being reports in adults) and you can even set time limits and a bedtime on their supervised devices.
In addition, to not only restrict the time of use, but even prevent before curing, it allows you to manage the applications that can be installed by authorizing or denying the process. The app will even show you Android applications recommended by the teachers that you can add directly to their device if you want to at least make the extra time they spend with their mobile in hand during the Christmas holidays as educational as possible.
Another alternative is Qustodio, a parental control app with which you can decide which apps and games your child can use and which are blocked for the future. As for the time limitation, it includes a remote lock mode that automatically locks the device when the previously set usage time runs out.
Lastly, SecureKids is an application designed so that parents can control the use their children make of Android devices and reduce the problems they may encounter while browsing the Internet. Once installed, remote setup allows you to manage your child’s device without having to physically own it.
