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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 that you can set to help keep your family safe. This is part 1 of 2.

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Parental Controls on Mac - Part 1 of 2 Hi. This is Mike Callahan, Doctor File Finder and welcome to your Butterscotch.com tutorial on Parental Controls on your Mac. This is Part 1 of 2. Now on this segment were going to look at the first half of the Parental Controls so click on System Preferences. Under System we’ll click on Parental Controls. You would select the user that you want to control then click on System. If you want, you can give them a simplified version of Finder. This is helpful for inexperienced users or people who are young. You can also elect to only allow selected applications like iLife, internet, widgets, utilities and other. You can also decide if they can administer printers, burn CDs and DVDs, change password or modify the dock. Now under the content tab, you can Hide Profanity that’s is in the dictionary and Limits access to certain words that are in the Mac OS X dictionary and you can also impose website restrictions so you can restrict website to only sites with appropriate content. And then under Mail $ iChat, you can limit mail and chat to the people that you’ve specifically entered into system. So you can put in there email address and then you can also put in there Jabber or AIM account so it makes it easy for you to limit what your children can do in the internet and that concludes this part 1.