It's been mentioned before on here, but I had to chime in. Windows Live Family Safety is an exceptional product; free, and very complete. I have three kids (15, 14, and 7) and it allows me to setup each kids access individually. You are limited to Windows, but my kids are probably in a similar situation to most where they're using Windows at school already, so it wasn't a teaching experience to tell my 7-year old she has to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del before she puts in her username and password:). Good luck, and good for you trying to protect your kids. There are too many parents that are either ignorant (the literal definition, not an insult), naive (that is a small insult), or too lazy (blatant insult) to protect their kids.
I got divorced to my first wife after a 4 year marriage with 2 kids. I got full custody of both. The custody part has to do with my ex-wife being such a looser. I got married to her when I was 19 and my oldest child, who will be 10 this month, was 7 months old. I got my start in IT right about the time she was born. The first 4 years of my career weren't bad due to my work, but directly as a result of who I married. She more or less kept me from growing in my field. The interesting time was really between marriages, when I was commuting 75 miles away and raising 2 kids on my own. If it wasn't for my parents helping out so much, I have no idea how I could have made it really. I couldn't read all the comments that were posted, but most that I did sound like people who don't know cause they've never been there. IT is demanding as hell, especially if you're like me and never finished college and worked your way up the latter. Spent the first 3 or 4 years doing system support stuff and worked up to doing system administration and finally have spent the last 5+ years doing development, which is the best part in my opinion. The point is, you got to take care of your family first, whether that's your wife and kids or just your kids. Part of taking care of them is working and providing, so you have to work, and sometimes that means working your butt off. You have to find balance and the best thing I think I ever did was surround myself with people who understand. I had a couple of bosses that were never married and never had kids and those experiences were bad for me, cause they didn't understand not being able to work until midnight and having to leave to get your kids from the after-school program. I hope everything works out for you. It did for me. I've remarried, and to a remarkable woman and we have a child together now. She's been giving enough that my career has been able to blossom as well as provided the kind of mother all my children deserve. Good luck and keep praying (or start if you need to:)).
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It's been mentioned before on here, but I had to chime in. Windows Live Family Safety is an exceptional product; free, and very complete. I have three kids (15, 14, and 7) and it allows me to setup each kids access individually. You are limited to Windows, but my kids are probably in a similar situation to most where they're using Windows at school already, so it wasn't a teaching experience to tell my 7-year old she has to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del before she puts in her username and password :). Good luck, and good for you trying to protect your kids. There are too many parents that are either ignorant (the literal definition, not an insult), naive (that is a small insult), or too lazy (blatant insult) to protect their kids.
I got divorced to my first wife after a 4 year marriage with 2 kids. I got full custody of both. The custody part has to do with my ex-wife being such a looser. I got married to her when I was 19 and my oldest child, who will be 10 this month, was 7 months old. I got my start in IT right about the time she was born. The first 4 years of my career weren't bad due to my work, but directly as a result of who I married. She more or less kept me from growing in my field. The interesting time was really between marriages, when I was commuting 75 miles away and raising 2 kids on my own. If it wasn't for my parents helping out so much, I have no idea how I could have made it really. I couldn't read all the comments that were posted, but most that I did sound like people who don't know cause they've never been there. IT is demanding as hell, especially if you're like me and never finished college and worked your way up the latter. Spent the first 3 or 4 years doing system support stuff and worked up to doing system administration and finally have spent the last 5+ years doing development, which is the best part in my opinion. The point is, you got to take care of your family first, whether that's your wife and kids or just your kids. Part of taking care of them is working and providing, so you have to work, and sometimes that means working your butt off. You have to find balance and the best thing I think I ever did was surround myself with people who understand. I had a couple of bosses that were never married and never had kids and those experiences were bad for me, cause they didn't understand not being able to work until midnight and having to leave to get your kids from the after-school program. I hope everything works out for you. It did for me. I've remarried, and to a remarkable woman and we have a child together now. She's been giving enough that my career has been able to blossom as well as provided the kind of mother all my children deserve. Good luck and keep praying (or start if you need to :)).