With the holiday season fast approaching it’s worth mentioning Parental Controls. What are Parental Controls? According to Wikipedia,
“Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television services, computer and video games, or computer software used to access the Internet, that allows a parent to monitor or limit what a child can see or do and/or time-limit these activities.”
The newer consoles all allow for parental controls to be set. While a videogame system is never able to fully monitor your child’s play time these tools allow parents to set varying boundaries to help protect children.
If you find a shiny new Wii or PS3 under you tree this holiday season I highly recommend you take a look at the Parental Control settings for your system of choice.
Listed below are links to each of the major video game system manufactures websites where they detail how to enable parental settings.
Hopefully in a future episode of Game Apparent TV we’ll detail out how to access these settings for those who haven’t had a chance to see them first hand!
Image provided under a Creative Commons license from Nick Bair via Flickr.
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