When you, as a parent or guardian, subscribe to cable TV, you understand that there is the possibility that your children may view programs that can expose them to unsuitable material. E-Net suggests that you regulate your children's exposure to the Internet in the same way you would regulate their access to the television. Most modern televisions enable you to lock out channels and secure them with a password, which provides you with some control over the content displayed on the television. Television manufacturers are starting to employ new technologies that can screen out programs that have a pre-determined rating. Even DVD players have the capability of using an ID code to keep someone from watching movies that have a certain parental rating.
Similar methods are available to parents with children that use the Internet.
Internet browsers have the capability to block out content from websites that are created by responsible web designers. Along with Internet browser options, there are third-party options to restricting the content viewed on the computer. See the list at the end of this section for helpful links to software that can accomplish this. An important matter that is often overlooked when using these tools concerns your password that you use to secure your computer's software. If you select a password that's used by something else, it's usually not long before your teen will put two and two together and all the time you spent securing the software becomes vain.