Do you know what your kids are doing online?
What apps have they downloaded?10 What videos have they watched?8 What are they searching for?
Social media, inappropriate content, risky websites: The world has changed. You want to help protect your kids from online dangers. Norton Parental Control gives you tools to help monitor, set limits and block inappropriate content.
Features of Norton Parental Control are supported by Windows, Android and iOS unless otherwise stated below. System Requirements
Internet safety involves an ongoing conversation with your kids.
In partnership with the National PTA, NortonLifeLock is proud to offer The Smart Talk. The Smart Talk gets parents and kids together for a conversation about being responsible with new technology.
The Smart Talk covers the following internet safety topics:
The Smart Talk helps you establish expectations for safer and more responsible online behavior with your children, things like:
How much time are your kids spending online?
Stay on top of how much time your kids spend on their PCs and Android devices. Foster healthier habits by scheduling specific times of the day or week each device can be used and how many hours a day can be spent on each device.
Screens are simulated and subject to change.
What videos have your kids watched?
See a list of YouTube videos your kids watch on their PCs, Android or iOS devices and even view a snippet of each video, so you know when you need to talk.8
What apps have your kids downloaded?
See which apps your kids have downloaded on their Android devices and choose which ones they can use, such as YouTube and Facebook.10
What sites are your kids visiting?
Let your kids explore the web freely, with tools that block unsuitable websites while keeping you aware of the sites they’re visiting.
What are your kids searching for?
See the words, terms, and phrases your kids are searching for to gain insights into their interests and help protect them from inappropriate content.
Where are they going?
Stay informed about where your kids are with tools that map the location of their Android or iOS devices and provide a 30-day history to show where they’ve been.9,10,‡‡
Is your child focused on schoolwork?
Remote learning requires the internet, so pausing the internet on your child’s device is not an option. Manage your child’s remote learning environment and keep your child focused on schoolwork during the school day.
Norton Parental Control gives you tools for online supervision, but also tools to help you keep the online safety conversation going with your kids. Once you have established an agreement with your kids for safe and responsible online behavior, you can use the tools within Norton Parental Control to help keep the conversation ongoing.
Getting started with Norton Parental Control involves setting up house rules for each child. Once those are set up, you’ll start getting alerts based on the rules you created, and you’ll also get regular reports on your kids’ online activity. If your child disagrees with a house rule or wants to visit a blocked website, they can send you requests within Norton Parental Control, giving you and your kids tools to help facilitate ongoing conversations about internet safety.
Alerts and communication tools in Norton Parental Control include:
It’s even harder if you don’t know what your kids are doing online. The world has changed, and the challenges that digital native kids face may be different from what you, their parent, faced at the same age.
Surveys of U.S. parents of kids or teens and technology use show:
66% of parents of a child under 18 say parenting is harder today than it was 20 years ago, with many citing technology as a reason why
93% of parents say that parents and guardians have a lot of responsibility to protect children from inappropriate online content
Parents of kids aged 11 or younger:
71% of parents of a child say they are concerned their child might ever spend too much time in front of screens
46% of parents say their child has encountered inappropriate videos on YouTube
Whether your concern is what content your kids see, what they are searching for, or how much screen time they are getting, Norton Parental Control gives you a suite of tools to monitor, set limits, and block inappropriate content.
Norton Parental Control helps protect your kids against online dangers by highlighting your kids’ online activity and identifying potential dangers before they become problems. Easy-to-use tools allow you to set screen time limits, block unsuitable sites, monitor search terms and overall activity history.
With Norton Parental Control, you can:
Norton Family and Norton Parental Control can only be installed and used on a child’s Windows PC, iOS and Android devices but not all features are available on all platforms. Parents can monitor and manage their child’s activities from any device – Windows PC, Mac, iOS and Android -- via our mobile apps, or by signing into their account at my.Norton.com and selecting Parental Control via any browser.
Norton Parental Control includes a number of online family safety tools for filtering and limit setting. It gives you filtering tools to block inappropriate content so your children can visit websites, watch videos, and use mobile apps within safe boundaries.8,10. It lets you view reports on your kids’ online behavior, and can help your kids avoid giving out personal information online. Norton Parental Control allows you to set limits on screen time,11 and monitor your kids’ online behavior, so you can help keep them safe from dangers in the digital world.
Features included in Norton Parental Control include:
Norton Parental Control includes tools for all of the above features, and more.
Mobile apps can be educational, fun and useful for both kids and adults. However, there are likely apps you don’t want your kids using, even if the app store rating suggests it is suitable for their age. Additionally, apps can come with malware or privacy risks. Norton Parental Control enables you to monitor your child’s apps on Android devices and choose which ones they can use. For apps that you don’t think they’re quite ready to use yet, you can put restrictions in place to help your kids have a safe and healthy experience with mobile apps.
Kids love YouTube.com videos. For parents, YouTube.com videos can be a helpful tool to keep kids occupied when needed. It can also be difficult to pull kids away from fun, visually-engaging videos. You may also worry about what videos your kids might accidentally stumble upon and watch, like content that’s not age-appropriate. Norton Parental Control enables you to see all the videos your kids have watched on YouTube.com, on Windows, Android and iOS. Norton Parental Control also enables you to set time limits and pause your kids’ device use, so they have time away from YouTube.com, too.
Without online family safety apps that can help filter content on the internet, children can browse the web freely, and there’s a lot on the web that may not be age-appropriate. Norton Parental Control gives parents tools to block certain websites and content topics while allowing children to browse the rest of the web more safely. With Norton Parental Control, you can choose to block particular sites completely, or give your child a warning when they try to visit certain sites, but still enable them to browse after the warning. For topic filtering, you can choose pre-defined settings for a specific age range or choose from a list of topics that you want to block, topics like violence or drugs. If your kids try to navigate to a blocked site, you get an email alert. Kids can also submit access requests to you for websites they would like to visit, giving them a way ask for you for permission to view it.14 You can also get a regular report that tells you what sites your kids have visited during a particular time period.
You also want to know what your kids are searching for online. Norton Parental Control provides parents with reports on the search terms their kids look for, so you know when it might be time to adjust the blocked content settings or have a talk with them about a particular subject.
Limiting kids’ screen time can often be a challenge. There are so many activities for kids to do online, and many of them are worthwhile, but sometimes it’s time for them to take a break. Solutions for limiting your children’s screen time11 include:
Norton Parental Control enable you to do all three. For each child, you can set a regular weekly schedule for what days and times they can use their devices. If you want to put an instant lock on a child’s device when it’s time to take a break and do other things, you can do that as well. You also get regular reports on your children’s time on their devices, so you can monitor and set limits to help your children develop healthy screen time habits.
To set up Norton Parental Control, you start by adding each child and their devices to your account. For each child, you then go through each section to select the settings or “House Rules” that you want for each child’s device. This includes:
Once set up, you will start to receive notifications on your child’s activity related to the House Rules. Your child can also view their list of House Rules, and submit requests to you through the app14. You’ll get regular reports on your kids’ online behavior and can view and manage all your kids’ rules in the Norton Parental Control easy-to-use app or web portal.
8 Video Supervision monitors videos that your kids view on YouTube.com. It does not monitor or track YouTube videos that have been embedded in other websites or blogs.
9 Location Supervision requires parent activation before use.
10 Mobile app must be downloaded separately.
11 iOS not supported
12 Windows not supported
14 Android not supported
‡‡ Requires your device to have an Internet/data plan and be turned on.
a “Parenting Children in the Age of Screens.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (July 28, 2020)
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