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 ++++++++++ David Spound, M.Ed. Valley Mindfulness Meditation and Stress Reduction: Workshops, Classes and Coaching (413) 219-0654 david at valleymindfulness.com http://www.valleymindfulness.com Upcoming classes: * A Taste of Mindfulness, Tuesday, May 23, 6:00 pm * Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, June 20 August 8 (Tuesday evenings) 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.