This photo provided by Amazon shows a demonstration of the company’s new parent dashboard tool, on a
smartphone. Amazon is introducing new tools to help parents see what their kids are doing on the
company’s Fire tablets. As a bonus, the e-commerce giant says its service will also help spark
discussions about the books kids read and the videos they watch. Parents first have to sign up with
Amazon’s FreeTime service, a set of tools for pre-approving how much time kids spend on a tablet and
what they do with it. The FreeTime service is free, as is the new dashboard tool. Then they’ll be able
to view each child’s activities through Amazon’s website.