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Parental controls can be a very important tool for parents. The Internet is an amazing place full of knowledge, wonder and communication unlimited. It can also be a dangerous place with hackers, phishers and even predators. Fortunately your Mac has built-in Parental Controls. In part 1 we showed you how to access the Parental Control panel. This is part 2 of 2 of our Parental Controls feature.

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Hi! This is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial on Parental Controls on the MAC part two. So, we’re going to do the first segment. We covered about half of the parental controls, click on system preferences, click on parental controls then highlight the person that you're trying to control or monitor. We got up to mail on chat last time. So this time, we look at—now, I think this is really cool because it’s built right in to the MAC that you can limit the amount of time that spend on the computer. The top one lets you limit weekdays so like during the school week for people who have children, you can limit it from anywhere from 30 minutes to eight hours or anywhere in between. Then you also have another section for just weekends. So, you can be a little more strict during the week and give up a little time on the weekend. And then you also have special controls for bed time, like on school nights or computer after 8 o’clock until 6AM. And then you can have weekend, Friday and Saturday time limits. So, you can give him a little bit extra time on the weekend and take it away during the week. So, I think this is really cool because it’s built in, you just go in and check the times that you want and you can make adjustments as needed. Then there’s logs and the logs gives you information on what’s going on, on the websites, websites that were blocked, applications and chat, that you can get reports based on one week, a month, three months, six months, a year. You can get them by website or date. Application, you can get the application name or the date it was used. And chat you can get who they were talking to and what date it was. So, the MAC has some excellent parental controls built right in and that concludes part two.