What a filter can do, and what only a conversation can.
A filter keeps the worst of the internet out. It can’t explain what your kid saw at a friend’s house.
We build a filter, so you might expect us to say a filter solves everything. It doesn’t, and families who expect it to are the ones who get caught out.
What a filter does well
A good filter stops accidents. The misspelled search, the ad that leads somewhere ugly, the link a classmate sends as a dare. For younger kids, accidents are most of the risk, and a filter removes them quietly, without anyone having to be the bad guy.
What it can’t do
It can’t follow your kid to a friend’s house, onto the school bus or into a group chat where someone shares a video. It can’t explain why something was upsetting. And it can’t tell you that your kid is sad.
A filter buys you time. What you do with the time is the parenting.
Using both
A division of labor
- Let the filter handle the accidents, so you don’t have to hover.
- Use the calm it creates for the conversations that matter.
- Say it early and often: if you see something awful, you are not in trouble.
Smartie’s tip
When something gets blocked, treat it as a conversation starter, not as evidence. “What were you looking for?” has a harmless answer nine times out of ten.
A filter that knows its job.
See what the KidsProxy web filter covers, and how exceptions work.
Keep reading
- Privacy
Protecting is not the same as watching
Why KidsProxy decides what comes in, but doesn’t read what your kid writes, and why that makes the protection work better.
- AI and kids
Your kid is talking to AI. Here is what to ask about it
Chatbots are already part of homework and boredom. Five questions that open the conversation without an interrogation.
- Privacy
Why we don’t collect your family’s data
KidsProxy runs inside your home network and sends no telemetry to us. What that means in plain terms.