{"id":79663,"date":"2017-10-04T09:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?p=79663"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:40:07","slug":"important-parents-monitor-kids-digital-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/family-safety\/important-parents-monitor-kids-digital-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s important for parents to monitor kids\u2019 digital footprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new cybersafety awareness among the people of my generation – post the Blue Whale Challenge<\/a> scare and rising concerns over cyberbullying – and quite a few have started playing a more proactive role in their children\u2019s online lives. That is the way to go!<\/p>\n

And not just parents, grandparents too are becoming aware. Just the other day, a friend\u2019s mom cornered me at a party and expressed concern over her grandchild\u2019s online habits.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is all of three but spend hours watching Spiderman cartoons on our iPhone. She knows how to unlock the phone and turn on You-Tube, she is that smart.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

I nodded, wondering where this was going.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I caught her the other day watching a very violent cartoon. I asked if that was a Spidey cartoon and she said no, she had come across it while surfing for new toons. She was enjoying it! All that violence at 3! What do we do<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

Now this is the case of a grandma, who despite her minimal technical knowledge, was wise and experienced enough to realize that her grandchild needed monitoring.<\/p>\n

That is what parents need to realize – we may lag behind our children in tech-savviness but we are way ahead of them in the department of wisdom borne of age and experience.<\/p>\n

According to a McAfee study, 49 <\/strong>percent of the Indian parents surveyed are concerned about stranger danger and almost 93<\/strong> percent of them have discussed the potential dangers on the internet with their children at some point. Yet only 36<\/strong> percent of Indian parents admitted to using software to monitor their children\u2019s activity on their devices. We would like to see that number grow!<\/p>\n

As children carry out most of their online activities on their mobile phones, it is necessary that parents secure these devices too. So today, I will introduce you to a wonderful product, McAfee Safe Family<\/a> that will help you to monitor your kids when they are on their phones too.<\/p>\n

Features of Parental Control Apps<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s first check out what all this parenting control app can help us with:<\/p>\n