Netflix and perental controls

[P-Jay]

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here?

I've got a 9 year old that simply cannot be trusted with any sort of electrical device - given the chance he'll delete 'child friendly' accounts, and start his own (usually with some desperately uncool name with the word 'cool' in it) completely free of restriction - it's been a Devil's job getting his Tablet, PS3 and the account on the family PC to the point where he won't accidentally develop a taste for Mexican Beheadings or Eastern European Scat Videos. I can monitor everything he does on any of those and indeed what he searches for on Google.

But Netflix, on the other hand... I set up an account for My Wife and I, and one for 'Kids' which restricted him to PG and under stuff - and of course he deleted this and set up his own JnrJayisthecoolestestev4r account - and 'forgot' to restrict the content - nothing sinister but he loves a US Teen drama and it makes for an INCREDIBLY irritating kids to live with, what with all the 'attitude' and throwing shade whatever that is. So I changed it back, and this stopped him for about 8 seconds before he realised all he has to do it click my name instead of his on the "whose watching" page and carry on - as far as I can see, unless you're in Germany there is no way of putting a password request or PIN lock on this - it's the self-service checkout of parental controls - useless.

Any ideas?

[Mastodon2]

Teaching your son some discipline and respect? He breaks the rules because he knows he can, he doesn't respect you and doesn't fear your disciplinary measures.

[Bullett]

The only value the netflix accounts seem to have is to track what individuals are watching. I know you can restrict accounts to kids content but with no password or other access controls it has little value beyond that. Certainly not what I would call parental controls.

[jbudgie]

Mastodon2 said:

Teaching your son some discipline and respect? He breaks the rules because he knows he can, he doesn't respect you and doesn't fear your disciplinary measures.

Think this near the mark.

[SpeckledJim]

Mastodon2 said:

Teaching your son some discipline and respect? He breaks the rules because he knows he can, he doesn't respect you and doesn't fear your disciplinary measures.

So the whole idea of parental controls is redundant. We should simply tell our well-disciplined kids what they cannot do, and that is that.

That really was simple. Next-up, the Middle-East.

[DJFish]

This is something I'll be having to deal with before too long.

My buddy in France has a lad who's obsessed with tracteurs (that's tractors in French😉) he went on a multi media tractor role playing site, yes really, it's apparently like world of Warcraft but with tractors.
I know, the mind boggles.

Anyway the lad kept bashing his tractor into someone's combine harvester and all of a sudden a 7 year old in rural Normandy is getting hate mail from some 45 year old virgin in Wyoming.

It's a minefield!

[P-Jay]

Thanks for the advice, I hadn't actually considered discipline or simply telling him not do to it - I can't believe I made such and oversight - it's probably explains why I found him trying to secure passage to Syria this morning.

I've ordered a large cane online.

[marshalla]

Get a chromecast and plug that into the TV. When he wants to watch something on Netflix, you control the process and cast it into the TV, the rest of the time, logout of the Netflix account so he can't use it (and choose some stronger more obscure passwords that he can't guess).

[Neil H]

It’s a fair point though, if he "can't be trusted with any sort of electrical device" why let him have one? Make him earn some trust?