This project deals with the development of monitoring software. it aims to help the higher authorities to monitor the target user which can be either students or company employees. as the name indicates, “parent-pal”, it will be a helping hand to parents, educational institutions etc. to know what their target users are doing at their respective workstations. it amalgamates concepts like remoting, screen recording and that of key logs into one unit. there are mainly three functionalities that have been incorporated. the first one is a key-logger. the key logger mainly generates a text file that consists of all the keys/characters that have been typed and maintains the log. moreover, this log can be mailed to the parents e-mail id on demand. the next one is .net remoting that helps the user to operate the software remotely. another one is screen snapster that takes the screen shots of the screen at regular interval and stores them at predefined place without notifying the user. the remoting functionality has the purpose of remotely activating the application on the child’s computer. this will also be extended to monitor multiple target users in one go.