I wasn't expecting my young children to go shopping this Black Friday. But, when I was in my office located in the back of the house and heard Alexa+ say that the 'Extreme Fart Extension' had been ordered, I knew that it wasn't my husband who'd made the purchase. Mostly because he wasn't home. My kids had gone from talking to Alexa+ to activating extreme flatulence in seconds. What followed can only be described as a full-blown soundboard of cartoonish gas explosions enabled instantly across every Alexa device in our home.

If you have kids, you probably already know that they’re faster at finding apps than you are at finding your Amazon login. Luckily, this is preventable. Here’s how to set up parental controls on Alexa and Amazon so your child doesn’t accidentally (or intentionally) down

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