You already said no YouTube until homework's done.
Parentech makes the laptop agree. Set your house rules once, run them from your phone, and stop being the human off-switch.
No card. Two minutes. Works on their existing Chrome.
Not right now.
Maths class runs until 15:30. Shorts come back after that.
Ask a parentYour phone
Set up once. Then it's just your phone.
No profiles to migrate, no router to reconfigure, no new laptop.
01
Install on their computer
Add it to Chrome, sign in with your Google account, pick a 6-digit PIN. Ninety seconds, standing behind them.
02
Say the rules in plain words
"Never TikTok." "No searching for that." "During class, class only." Type them the way you say them.
03
Run the house from your pocket
Loosen it for a Saturday, start a class from the bus. The PIN means they can't undo you.
Seven rules that do the heavy lifting
Sites that never open
A blocklist that holds in every tab. No countdown to argue with. Your PIN can open one for fifteen minutes; it shuts again by itself.
Searches that never run
Some things you'd rather they ask you about. Add the words; the search quietly doesn't happen, on Google, Bing, YouTube and the rest.
Only the class, during class
Start a class and for the next 45 minutes the only tabs that open are the ones the lesson needs. Everything else waits. Afterwards, a report.
A calmer YouTube
Shorts gone, autoplay off, recommendations quiet. The video they came for, then the end of it.
That channel, gone
Block a channel, a video or a word in a title. It disappears from the feed and the search, and stays paused if they reach it by a link.
Four to six, only these
A program with a clock. Homework sites from four, Roblox from six, and nothing else in between. It starts and ends on its own, every school day.
Where the hours went
Active time per site, counted only while someone is actually there. It stays on their computer: a number to put on the table, not a report card.
We don't want your kid's browsing history.
Rules are checked on their computer, by their computer. Nothing about what they visited is uploaded, stored, or shown to you, because a surveillance feed is a different product, and a worse one for your relationship.
- 01Enforced locally, on their computer
- 02No history sync, ever
- 03PIN-locked: changing a rule needs you
- 04Your Google sign-in, nothing more
Try it on one laptop tonight.
Free on that laptop, for good. 7 days of the whole house and your phone on top, no card. If the arguing doesn't drop, tell us why.
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All posts19 Aug 2026
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