Superior Parental Controls From DirecTV

It has been a great concern and is a growing concern for many parents, of children of all ages, that their children will stumble across inappropriate content on television when the parent is not around.   It is almost impossible nowadays for a parent to be around the house long enough to keep an eye on all of the programs that their child watches.  This is mostly because most households have either single parents or a situation where both spouses have 40 hour a week jobs around the same parts of the day.   The option of bringing in a nanny or daily babysitter is unavailable to most families because of how expensive it tends to be.   However, even if this was possible, who can say if the nanny will really pay close enough attention to the programs your child watches or even if he or she will care enough to keep them from it.  One thing is for certain, nobody knows better what is best for their own child than themselves.   You can not trust someone else with the task of deciding what kind of content is appropriate for your child or children.   This has also been a great problem because of the lack of parental control options with cable television.  Cable television has the television rating system, of course. 

The ratings such as TV-Ma and TV-14 were obviously created with the right idea in mind.  However, studies have shown that a child is much more likely to seek out channels with those ratings to find inappropriate content out of curiosity, than to avoid them for fear of running into such content.   Now many parents may feel that their child would never do such a thing, which of course may be true.  However, as innocent and good a child may be, a natural sense of curiosity in a child with a developing mind can often times override a sense of protecting their own innocence.  

All of this has been taken closely into consideration by DirecTV when they developed their superior parental control features.  With DirecTV, a subscriber will find that the parental controls are extremely easy to use with many great features.   With this awesome parental control feature, the parent will find that they can actually lock out channels at certain times of the day or even lock out a channel entirely.  As every television viewer knows, there are some channels that are full of gratuitous sex and violence from morning to night.  On the other hand, however, there are some channels that air programs with real merit during the day, whereas you never know what might come on after ten o clock.   This is why you have the option, with DirecTV’s parental controls, to lock a channel either at certain times, or “permanently”.  

Of course, with this system, even the “permanently” blocked channels can be unlocked, if you have the password that is.  That is right, you will not have to worry about your technologically savvy child getting into your parental control feature and changing settings.  With this totally fool proof password protection, you can be sure that your child will be safe from a lot of the gratuitous sexual and violent material that plagues the television airwaves today!