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hey i'm donald bell for cnet.com here with a how-to on how to make the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet safe for kids let's father myself I know that the Kindle Fire can be a great way to reward your kid for good behavior treating them with a game of Angry Birds or their favorite cartoon but I also know that my kid is not quite ready yet for everything that the Internet and the web entails plus this thing's connected to my credit card and Amazon I'm not ready for him to run loose with that quite yet to keep your kids experience contained to just the content that's on the Kindle Fire Amazon has provided a passcode lock feature on its Wi-Fi connection to use it first check to make sure you're running the latest OS by diving into the settings and looking at the device info you need to be on system version 6 point 2 point 1 or later next back into the settings menu and tap restrictions tap the switch to create a password and this should automatically disable the Wi-Fi connection to test it try to open a web page you'll also notice that there's this key icon in the top right corner indicating that the Wi-Fi is locked to unlock it click the Wi-Fi icon and tap the switch you'll be prompted for your password and the Wi-Fi connection will remain unlocked and so you go back and switch it off again finally just because you've clipped this thing's internet connection it doesn't mean you've completely sanitized the Kindle Fire take a minute to comb through the content you've already loaded up maybe there's an r-rated movie or an explicit song or some zombie game with exploding heads whatever it is you can erase it by pressing and holding the item and selecting delete Amazon backs all the stuff up to the cloud so you can download it again later if you want that's how to make the Amazon Kindle Fire safe for kids while still preserving all of the fun stuff for cnet.com i'm donald bell you