Parents around the world are stressed out every day over what could be happening on the iPhones and iPads of their children. Do we want to stop giving our children the best of modern technology? Absolutely not! Technology is here to stay and it will only benefit our next generation to get them involved in technology early. Also, games and apps have been shown to increase engagement and understanding in certain areas of brain development, like pattern recognition.

Parents worry because they do not have a great resource giving them parental controls for iPhone and iPad. They are going at it blind with only a few resources online. As a parent myself I know how hard it is to keep up with technology. It seems our kids are light-years ahead of us sometimes. Luckily there are a few options.

Apple iOS7 comes with parental controls built in, but what good are they if your kid can figure out how to turn them off? Also there are a few apps out there that supply parents with some control features, but what good is an app if your kids can delete it?

A true solution has to be feature rich, easy to use and unable to be uninstalled or turned off by kids. Also it must be adaptable to the times as new apps and websites come out daily.

Companies in the mobile security space are allowing parents to sleep better at night and not worry so much when their kids are gone with their mobile devices because the control is back in their hands. Many parents are afraid of technology simply because they do not know how to use it.

Parenting is tough. Get better at it by "working smarter not harder" and try out a 3rd party parental control service today. You will accomplish 3 things:

Be more comfortable with your choices

Know exactly what is on your kids devices at all times. Do not feel like a bad parent by giving your kid a smartphone and not know anything about it.

Be more in control

You are the parent! You decide time limits, content restrictions and app usage limits. Parental controls for iPhones gives you that power.

Be happier at home

Dinner time? No iPhones. Bedtime? No iPads. Timeout? No problem. Get your family dinner back and your kids completing their homework without distractions.

In conclusion, while Apple devices come with some parental control features built in, they are not very intuitive or useful. Try out some of the parental control services available today, possibly search on Google for parental controls for iPhone or a similar search phrase to find the top companies out there.