I do this whenever a computer changes hands, even in the same household, but it’s not a prerequisite for setting up parental controls. I reinstalled macOS over the internet on to an encrypted filesystem, went through the setup process until I had a working computer with one user account and installed Sophos Home. A clean slateīecause I was reusing an old laptop I decided to wipe it clean and start again. Later this week we’ll walk you through a similar setup for a Windows machine so stay tuned for that. This article walks you through the things I did to secure the laptop, and details the parental controls and options I chose. The Mac would be no exception, there would be boundaries, so I enlisted its in-built parental controls to see what they could do, and how they could help. The kids have been at school for a few years and they’re are old enough to have a little independence, but most of what they do is supervised or subject to fairly restrictive boundaries. I wanted to broaden their horizons a little: do a bit of coding a bit of web searching get them comfortable with a keyboard give them something valuable that they had to look after and get the ball rolling with developing some good computer security habits. We use laptops for school homework from time to time but my kids spend most of their screen time poking and swiping tablets. Over the summer I decided to give my kids an old Apple laptop to share.
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