So... now for part 2 of our ongoing "privacy" debate with a 10-year-old. Earlier today I wrote about my daughter's discovering secret gmail account. Upon doing so, I blocked gmail on the laptop, but didn't say anything else. The girls had taken the laptop upstairs (something we had allowed them to … [Read more...]

About a year ago, my daughter (who was 9 at the time) started asking for her own email account. This, I suppose, comes from having parents who make a living using computers. In any case, after researching our options, we found lots of suggestions online for using free web-based services like Gmail … [Read more...]

Microsoft Outlook has some filtering techniques that can be particularly useful to parents trying to restrict who sends their children email. You can use a free email account from your Internet service provider, as the company probably provides its users with several. We use Verizon for Internet … [Read more...]