Google's Assistant is getting parental controls. Here's how they work.

From his perch at Google, Shodjai said that in some of those cases, children already understand that they shouldn't talk to, say, their parents in the same way as they would a product. Since launch, the company has also added features meant to reinforce good etiquette -- in late 2018, it updated the Assistant with a new "pretty please" mode, where requests that include a "please" or "thank you" would garner a grateful response.