Best Chrome Extensions for Parents
Being a parent can seem like the endless routine of a good cop / bad cop, and for today’s generation of childcarers, that includes enacting digital boundaries law .
Luckily, there are products out there to help you manage your kids’ digital lives – whether it’s online learning, endless YouTube chatting, or switching between the two – and that’s why we’ve compiled a list of our favorite Google Chrome extensions for parents depending on what kind of help you have. looking for:
To increase the number of training sessions:
You don’t need to keep a close eye on the stopwatch to be an effective overseer. Babysitting lets you set time limits on your child’s favorite entertainment sites to help them better manage their workloads and stay focused. You can also completely restrict access to certain URLs.
Once you’ve closed the trapdoors on the Internet’s nauseating gallows, what’s left can be a source of education and inspiration for your child. The Liner is a great learning tool that allows kids to highlight (and annotate) text on web pages and PDFs, even on mobile devices. Moreover, he collects selected excerpts for later viewing, which is necessary for essays.
While we’re on the subject of words, if you’re a strict grammarist, Grammarly is the best extension for encouraging correct spelling and grammar skills wherever your child writes on the internet. You can turn off the monitoring of certain websites if you want Twitter to not enter your syntax control.
Using the open API Google Translate, ImTranslator translates foreign language passages through a popup or directly according to the text. It also boasts a dictionary for defining new words.
To protect their privacy and block inappropriate content
Unlike Nanny, which is more about time management and blocking specific sites, WebFilter Pro allows parents to weed out whole swaths of inappropriate sites with keyword-based categories, which saves you the restless depths of fetish porn in search of URLs to ban. …
Despite its harsh name, F Off is an extension that blocks profanity on web pages with asterisks. You can also customize the words that are acceptable, which is helpful if you find certain swear words inevitable.
Advertisers will stop at nothing to track behaviors , including those of your child. Ghostery detects and blocks common tracking devices such as pixels, errors and beacons, calming you down and making your page load faster.
For idle entertainment:
At the end of the school week, children cannot be expected to watch Saturday morning cartoons in front of this ancient plasma screen. They need to be distracted! The Online TV extension allows them to tune in and save TV channels from all over the world right in their browser.
If you’re feeling generous enough to hand over your credit card (as if your child hasn’t memorized the number yet) for online purchases, install Honey first. It looks for coupon codes all over the internet and automatically applies them, saving you money on checkout, whether you shop or not.
Soapbox is a lightweight video recording and editing tool that’s perfect for kids who are interested in vlogging or preparing a video essay for college admission (hello Elle Woods ). It can record webcam and screen activity at the same time and edit them in split screen, making it easy to showcase victory over a super difficult video game boss or premature coding prowess.
Fortunately, your kids don’t live in a world where they have to risk infecting your computer by downloading the latest hits from KaZaA. If they use Google Play Music for streaming, this extension gives them a mini-player with controls that allow them to navigate through playlists without interrupting their browsing. It also has quick links to lyrics (where was that when we needed a new AIM Away message?)
Even the network has no outlet. Give up, good cop.