Why monitoring your child’s Android phone is important

Posted by Brooke Chloe
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Jun 12, 2015
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With the way in which technology is improving, it has become possible to monitor the android phones of teenagers today. A number of tracking and monitoring apps exist which can monitor the activity on smart phones. For some parents, using these apps and software’s ensures that they are engaging in good parenting whereas the other side of the debate states that there are pros and cons to this and that before parents engage in such behavior, they should look into these.

Whether a child or teenager is being given a phone, it needs to be monitored and tracked. Children these days are so technology friendly that it is very easy for them to come across porn sites, gambling and internet scams and similar inappropriate and offensive material and because they aren’t mature enough, they don’t know what to do which sometimes results in them getting into trouble. Due to this purpose, parents should engage in monitoring an android phone and if they don’t know how to monitor their child’s android phone or any other phone he/she may have, they should get started. The best thing is that a number of low cost parental control software’s and apps can now be purchased which can help in blocking such inappropriate content. Furthermore, it gives parents the ability to spy the android phone their child is using and to get access to whatever activities are being indulged in.

The way in which these control apps work in helping to monitor an android phone is that the default browser in the cell phone is replaced with a safe browser. The safe browser helps to block any offensive links which could result in the search results while your child may be making use of the phone. With the help of such apps, parents can monitor the android phone and receive the browsing history on a remote and online user control panel which has been designated only for their use.

Mobile parental control tools are not entirely fully featured comparison to parental control suites which are available for desktop browsers, but this is mostly due to the restrictions placed on each by the operating systems. On iOS, apps are limited to blocking URLs in Safari and there's no monitoring feature either. On Android, mobile malware is more prevalent, but apps offer similar configuration levels which can be found on a desktop browser as well.

Many may ask what needs to be tracked and monitored while an android phone is being tracked. Some of the things which parents should look into is the text messages being sent and received by their children; the calls they are receiving and the ones they make; the kind of content they share such as the videos and images which they may be downloading onto their phones or taking from their phones and then distributing; who they communicate with on social media; the kind of emails they get and so on. These are some of the basic features which every parent should monitor on their child’s android phone because it is through doing so that you can understand whether or not your child is in trouble because often times, they aren’t willing to speak of for fear of embarrassment or feeling that you will get mad at them. What they don’t realize is that telling someone is more important than anything else and because they aren’t able to understand this concept, monitoring their phones is one of the ways to go. Of course, alongside this parents should talk to their children about how to properly use their phones and to instill in them the responsibility to speak up when things go wrong.
In last as a parental control expert I would likely refer all tech reader to Semispy. Semispy is a tech blog having unbiased reviews of  mobile spy apps. Interested and needy parents and employers can easily read reviews of all cell phone spy software, that may help them to choose best monitoring app. 

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