Our experience with parental controls and its benefits.
About a year ago, during one of our weekly check-ins. My wife mentioned that she thinks I spend too much time on my phone, she mentioned about changing some settings on my devices and setting some kind of parental controls. We agreed to try it out. It was hard to adjust at first but I started getting used to it. Although sometime months later I found a way to kinda bypass it and got caught.
To my surprise about a week later. I woke up as usual and noticed a MDM program that was installed on my phone. Not really knowing what it was, I tried to delete it but couldn’t. My wife was still asleep so I grabbed my laptop and there too had this profile called canopy. Doing a simple search I found it was a parental control app. Once I got my wife up and getting her ready for the day. I asked what that was about and she mentioned that she really did not like my ability to sneak around her screen times on my phone. So she installed this program on my phone and laptop. Basically with very limited time on sites, browsers and apps still with night screen times. There’s lots of filters also on it so my little escape to some porn is all gone. She mentioned wanting a program that is impossible to bypass and I must say it’s true. I secretly tried early on and couldn’t so that’s basically what led on to myself having one. I do admit that it has greatly improved myself overall and we both agree, it’s helped tremendously.
Just curious to hear from others their experience and benefits they have gained from parental controls as well as sharing our experiences.