Google revamps Assistant parental controls and adds a kids' dictionary

Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong -- including content that's decidedly not family-friendly. Google is trying to address those worries by both revising parental controls for Assistant and providing more child-oriented responses. To start, an update will let you disable some Assistant features, restrict the services children can use and establish downtime hours. You can bar kids from making calls, or limit them to watching YouTube Kids on a Nest Hub. The controls will be available in the "coming weeks" through the Google Assistant, Google Home and Family Link apps for Android and iOS.