[Hidden-tech] Email for kids

[David Spound]

Thanks to Will and other HT folks for their responses. I will be following
these suggestions and using the Macintosh OS X parent controls.

I agree that the biggest "risk" is from web browsing. My wife and I have
done out best to supervise this activity. Besides playing games (and my son
spends a lot of time on eBay looking for rare Star Wars action figures), my
kids do a surprisingly large amount of research for homework. So far, I have
also relied on Google's SafeSearch filtering.

David

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on 5/18/06 9:03 AM, Will Loving at will at dedicationtechnologies.com wrote:

> My almost 10 year old son has just recently gotten an email account which I
> am monitoring using OS X's Parental Controls (only available in 10.4 and
> higher). He brings me any new addresses that he wants to add to his "white
> list" and I put them in for him so he can only send to and receive from
> those addresses. If he were to send to any other, it comes to me first.
> Ichat (the OS X built-in IM client) has a similar white list feature.