This article provides tips for parents on setting up tech gifts for their children, emphasizing the importance of parental controls and account setup before Christmas.
We are only 12 days from Christmas, and the preparations are probably almost complete. Santa letters have been posted, turkeys ordered and stockings hung up waiting to be filled with gifts and treats on December 24th. But if Santa is leaving any tech gifts under the tree this year, there are some things you should start doing now to make sure that everything goes smoothly on Christmas Day, and beyond.
If you were to rank the most tedious requirements for new devices, setting up accounts would be in the top three, especially if you are starting from scratch. Not only do they want to know how to contact you by phone, email and carrier pigeon, they also want you to choose answers to several security questions you will immediately forget, and pick out the images that show even a sliver of the side of a traffic light before they will let you continue. But even if you are tempted to let your child do it for themselves on Christmas morning, there is one very good reason why you shouldn’t: parental controls. To access them, you will need an account of your own, then link your child’s account to yours before you can start imposing time limits on apps and locking down devices for school and study hours. It isn’t always possible to put that in place retroactively if your child has already set themselves up with an unrestricted account. All the games companies – Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo – will allow you to set up a child account so you can keep on eye on what they are playing and for how long, as will the smartphone platforms and Microsoft for Windows PCs. It doesn’t have to be forever. As they get older, you can loosen the constraints a little, allowing them more autonomy over their own devices as they learn to navigate their way through some of the trickier elements of technology. The more data there is on there, the more time the phone will take to back up and transfer to the new phon
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