Amazing Tool for Parents Who Pay Attention to What Their Kids Consume Online

I’ve come to rely on Common Sense Media for advice on all the media my kids consume. It’s a treacherous road for modern day parents and this is a helpful tool.

I setup a profile for my kids and use their recommendations to find interesting and appropriate things to watch.

Provide a child’s age and gender, select topics that interest them (Dogs, Cats and Mice) and character strengths you’d like them to learn about (Integrity; Curiosity) from checklists. Then set your tolerance for violence, sex, language, and drinking / drugs / smoking. That’s it.

Find Free Movies

This turned up tons of movies based on my selections for us to check out. I narrowed the results to only show me Netflix or Amazon Prime titles. Cause you know, free.

If something looked really interesting, I saved it to my watchlist. No more sitting around on movie night staring at each other not knowing what to watch.

Video Games

I also rely on Commonsense Media to VET ALL VIDEO GAMES that my son plays. This is really important.

He’s twelve. He came home from a friend’s house and told me they played Assassin’s Creed Origins.

Now he knows that game is not allowed in our house, and I don’t want him playing it elsewhere either. Will he comply when he’s away from home? I can’t know for sure, but he knows that I care and I’m paying attention.

That matters.