Keeping Kids Safe: Parental Control Features

Setting Up a Safe Viewing Environment for Children

With children in the house, what the television can reach matters as much as what it shows. A few settings handle both content and screen time.

1. Set the parental lock

Nearly every player includes one. You set a PIN, and the categories you select will not open without it.

The path is usually Settings > Parental Control > Set PIN, then you tick the categories to lock.

Choose a PIN a child cannot guess — birthdays and 1234 are the first things tried.

2. Give children their own list

Put cartoon and educational channels in favourites and make that the start screen. The child turns on the television and lands directly on their own channels.

How to manage favourites: organising your channel list

3. Match content to age

Children's channels are not one audience:

• Pre-school: slow-paced, repetitive, song-based
• Primary school: story-driven animated series
• Older: documentary and science content

Nature and science documentaries make a good bridge for the age group outgrowing cartoons: documentary channels

4. Managing screen time

Most players offer no time limit, so practical habits do the work:

• Fix viewing hours (one episode after dinner, for example)
• Keep the television in a shared room
• Use the archive rather than live channels — live plays the next programme automatically, while choosing from the archive is a deliberate act

Setup help

Where the parental lock sits varies by app. Device-by-device steps are in our setup guides; if you get stuck, support can help.

Source: Parental controls – Wikipedia