Students would spend much time on surfing the internet during every vacation.Since the Computer entered our life ,especially students' life,internet not only brought us a lot of knowledge but also some bad information. It has made many scholars in educational fields and parents concerned that how to protect naive children from bad information sitting besides the computer.

According a survey, some 65% of parents said their kids surfed the internet frequently.we can easily infer that internet has taked up a important part of children's daily life. About 20% said their kids surfed the internet on occasion because they cannot get parents' consent under the academic pressure.In addition,15% said their kids didnot surf the internet because they are too young to use the computer.On the survey whether they take measures to protect their children from bad information,most parents conceded they took concrete measures to protect kids.As far as we know,many parents protect children being online by accompanying them or checking computer desktop and they know little about computer monitoring software.At the same time,55% thought the filtering effectis the key point of computermonitoring software.They would choose to use it only on condition that it works a lot for children.Besides,30% would take it into consideration whether the computer monitoring software will affect the normal use of computer.15% would take it into consideration whether the software is free of charge.

" My son is in grade 5. I have to make sure my kid cannot contact bad information on the internet,so i installed parental control software" Miss Wang said.Although at the beginning her son was disgusted with her act and thought mum had no trust in him.After good communication,he realized he cannot control himself very well because he would surf the internet all day chatting or browsing message board and it's really a waste of time.What is worse,he cannot finish his homework on time at weekend and it led to the drop of grade. After knowing good intention of parents,xiaowei were pleased to accept the parental control software.

Nowadays ，monitoring software is applied more and more widely for home using and monitoring children online activities ,however,most people are not so clear about the features of it.

Monitoring software can enable you to control, restrict and record access and usage of your PC. You can control how long and when users are allowed to use the computer, prevent the use of specific programs, block access to certain websites, restrict access to windows functions, and more.Thereis a type of parentalcontrol software,such as: Parental Control Softwareor Mac keylogger

Other types of monitoring software also can be used to manage children,for example: Netvizor , Mobile Phone Spy Software and Remote Spy Software

However,you must make sure your use of software is lawful.you should tell those relevant before you are ready to install monitoring software.