Circle: Parental controls through a Disney-branded router add-on

As a parent of three children who have been exposed to technology since they were born (we called our second child “iBaby 2.0”), the issue of filtering and parental controls has been on my mind for several years. I’m not particularly advocating that every parent filter content or use “nanny software” to become a babysitter for Internet content. On the other hand, I’ve seen a LOT of examples where kids have been exposed to things on the Internet that they probably shouldn’t be exposed to. Call me wishy-washy, but I’m going to play this one right down the middle – my approach is a combination of talking to my kids about the dangers of the Internet, mixed in with parental controls and filters. It also helps that I can always say to them, "I work in the tech industry, I know all of the different things you can do and how to try to get around them."

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