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Balancing Freedom and Responsibility with Parental Control App

Balancing Freedom and Responsibility with Parental Control App

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Free range parenting is when a parent doesn’t believe in hovering over their child full time for fear of not compromising their safety. This style of parenting believes dangers and mistakes are a part of life, and the child has to deal with them without the constant meddling presence of a parent to learn the three basic life skills of a well-balanced adult: decision-making, problem -solving, and conflict resolution.

And they believe having an independent is the key, central skill and the pillar of a successful personal and social life, and since that independence needs to be built into a person’s character gradually, experience by experience, by cocooning the child they won’t let that independence form, which ends up creating lifelong character flaws and weaknesses, bad decision and an overall unhappy existence.

 

What is the opposite of free range parenting?

The polar opposite of a free range parenting is what is called a helicopter parent, as in constant hoverer, they tend to be extremely wary of all kinds of dangers that can be lying in wait for their child everywhere they are, and they feel their main job as a parent is to keep their child from imminent and very probable harm.

Although no one can blame them given all kinds of horrific things that have been happening to children in the most safe-sounding environments, they end up making the child feeling smothered, killing their confidence and independence, and leaving them even more vulnerable to the actual come.

You can call helicopter parenting stress-reactive parenting as well, as the parents is driven by stress in their decision that if constant vigil is not kept, their child is sure to be harmed.

 

Is Parental Control App a tool for free range parenting?

Free range parenting and helicopter parents were in a hot debate, looking down on each other accusing each other of bad parenting. Helicopter parents call free range parenting irresponsible, neglectful, and flat-out unfit, and free range parents call helicopter parents hysterical, insecure, and pretty much non-smart. And this line of mutual accusation and judgment was going on far before parental control apps hit the market.

After software solutions revolutionized parenting toolbox, giving parents tool to monitor their kids, for the primary and even sole purpose of watching out for their safety, everyone assumed this is the ultimate rotor blades for the helicopter parents, giving them the optimum tool to hover away. But is it actually like that?

 

Parental Control Apps And Free-Range Parents?

You see how everyone was wrong about a prenatal control app being just what the helicopter parent needs to ever more suffocate their child? Here’s what they missed: the only grievance everyone including the helicopter parents and the middle of ground, mainstream parents had with the free-range parent was that you are fundamentally and intentionally ignoring one of the main factors of your child’s well-being, by having them expose themselves as sitting ducks out in the world by themselves, unsupervised.

And their grievances were not completely unfounded. So, basically the only thing missing from the free range parenting system was that they did not monitor where their child is, and what they are up to, and, they basically didn’t know what horrible thing might be happening to their child, is it me or is it exactly what a parental control app provides?

A parental control app gives you monitoring tools, first and foremost, so that you know what is going on in your child’s digital,  and the real world, and then, it gives you a choice to step in each scenario or not. Now, the free-range parent has always felt their child needs to face the challenge on their own, and learn from getting a little hurt, but if they are notified that their child can get hurt a lot, they can intervene.

Also, the helicopter parent feels they need to be present all the time as their child MIGHT be getting hurt, but now that we are providing reports, they can intervene only when our processed information tells them they need to. So, this way, both parent types get involved every once in a while, when necessary. Isn’t that a happy middle we can see as one of our many accomplishments? That we have helped two extremes find a constructive compromise.

 

How features in a parental control app can take extreme-method parents closer to the middle?

A parental control app like Safes Parental Control App, approaches every area of parenting with two parts, reporting, and giving you an option to step in or not, and that’s the beauty of it. Many critics say that parental control apps create a culture of hovering and too much control and censorship and it fuels the worry-driven, suspicion-feeding parenting, but what refutes that theory in its totality is that we have separated knowing, from taking action in every single feature.

For example, you get to know how to check what YouTube videos your child is watching, what messages they are receiving in all the social media apps, where they are, and who their friends and peers are. But you only intercept real, actual danger, with the option of blocking their apps, their access to websites, even their entire phones, both as a precaution and as a disciplinary act.

 

What features help with the knowing, and what features help with the informed intervention?

Features like activity report, social media monitoring, content management, driving report, location tracking/history give you information as to what the behavioral pattern of both your child, and of the people they interact with on a regular, meaningful, and impactful basis are. Web filtering, safe search, app blocking, geofencing, and smart scheduling, help you interfere whenever the data is telling you is time to; and chat interfaces, and SOS signaling features help you create and nurture a culture of communication with your child, which is the key to a healthy, constructive parent-child relationships that just clinches successful parenting. For more detailed examination of each feature pay a visit to our homepage where each feature is described in detail.