Web browser/program for young kids?

[beetiger]

I'm getting a new laptop (my current one hs some minor electrical issues that were starting to feel dangerous. I'm thinking of passing the old machine on to projectmothra. I'd like to give him 'net access, since he likes to IM bard_bloom and play webgame tie-ins to kids' movies. And though of course I'm not going to leave him unsupervised wth it for big chunks of time, he's already surprisingly good with google searches, and I think I'd be a bad parent if I didn't put some auto-filtering in place. Does anyone have experience with any of the content-restriction or opt-in kid's browsing programs?

Thanks.

Comments

[marrionettegirl.livejournal.com]

google does have a filtering option, just click prefrences, and tell it what you want
being as its the two of us and we're both not kifs (mostly!)
i have no idea regaurding any net nanny progs.

[sandramort.livejournal.com]

I'm blushing here, but we use AOL for the kids. The AOL kids' interface makes me feel a lot more confident.

'Dangerous' electrical issues...

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

If you'd like me to take a look at the laptop and see if I could repair whatever the problem is before you pass it on to him, I'd be happy to. I've repaired a dozen or so of them without mishap so far.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

CyberSitter is what we used for the foster children. It's entirely customizable so that they can only access the exact content you want them to. You can block specific word and phrase searches as well as entire web sites. You can add and remove the sites which come built in for blocking.

And it doesn't block pagan, Wiccan, or witchcraft related sites.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

This is only vaguely connected to what you asked, but Kensington makes a small "travel mouse" for laptops, designed for convenient use in small spaces. (Other companies may make the same kind of thing, but mostly I see touchpads.) Coincidentally, it's ergonomically good for the hand of a 5 or 6 year old.