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A little background, my son has isolated himself more and more in his room over the last few years using his computer for 6 - 12 hour stretches. 3 monitors, one usually with a chat room chatting to mates via headset, another with a game going like overwatch or whatever and another for various like music or browsing.
Long story short (and after several interventions and attempts at help for his attitude / mental health) things finally became too toxic at home and he's been homeless coming up to a month.
Of course this has forced him to engage in certain services finally, he's in a shelter and the dorm has 14 other cots in it and there's arguing all night etc, relies on food from them, has been to sign on and look for work and a month later that's still not sorted as he had no ID etc and he's started to talk to the shelter counsellor. Also, he's got an interview next week for work at McDonalds.
There's been some communication and today's the first time he, me and the wife have sat down and chatted together. The stumbling block is his computer. We've told him we would love him to come home but on similar "terms" to what he's doing now, ie transparency of what he's doing ie work, pay, bank accounts, active participation in family and not sitting in his room all day every day as isolation breeds depression.
To that end, (and it's only one of many parts of this jigsaw) I want to find a way that he can use his computer 1 hour a day but that I can monitor he sticks to it? Im not after spyware that will copy website addresses and keystrokes or any of that, I literally want to see if there's some simple software to monitor pc usage if that makes sense?
Long story short (and after several interventions and attempts at help for his attitude / mental health) things finally became too toxic at home and he's been homeless coming up to a month.
Of course this has forced him to engage in certain services finally, he's in a shelter and the dorm has 14 other cots in it and there's arguing all night etc, relies on food from them, has been to sign on and look for work and a month later that's still not sorted as he had no ID etc and he's started to talk to the shelter counsellor. Also, he's got an interview next week for work at McDonalds.
There's been some communication and today's the first time he, me and the wife have sat down and chatted together. The stumbling block is his computer. We've told him we would love him to come home but on similar "terms" to what he's doing now, ie transparency of what he's doing ie work, pay, bank accounts, active participation in family and not sitting in his room all day every day as isolation breeds depression.
To that end, (and it's only one of many parts of this jigsaw) I want to find a way that he can use his computer 1 hour a day but that I can monitor he sticks to it? Im not after spyware that will copy website addresses and keystrokes or any of that, I literally want to see if there's some simple software to monitor pc usage if that makes sense?