Need a good parental control..

I always use internet to communicate with my friends and relatives living far. I think it was the easiest way to be in contact with all of them, so in same manner now my child want to have an email account to contact with his friends but I don’t want to let him to access internet just from now. As i am aware of the hazards of internet usage. Should Parental control email service provider will be helpful to me in this case..

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on November 19, 2009 at 2:41am

Ellina,

As the parent, you need to be monitoring what your child does online. If you do not want him to have email as yet, then tell him NO! You may want to tell him when that decision will be reversed. NO CHILD SHOULD BE ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT PARENT SUPERVISION. All children should know and follow parental directions on what they can and cannot access. It is your job as a parent to set and enforce such limits.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stange on November 19, 2009 at 6:24am

I am ambivalent about this. In September I activated my fourth and fifth grader's DeskNow accounts so they could use them as part of their media studies with me. These accounts are part of the school division's network and subject to monitoring. Since then the tech department has pointed out one example of inappropriate language. Students are pretty quick to rat out peers who send abusive language or inappropriate content. I have dealt with two problems. I find them responsible users. A walk around the lab to look at their activity reveals what studies are beginning to show. The vast majority of contacts are friends and family. Young people tend to use Twitter, texting, phone calls, facebook and email to enhance existing relationships.

Young people need media awareness and help developing responsible and safe use. We do this with telephone etiquette and their unsupervised movement around the community. I wish I could remember the author of this quote, "Children do not need their eyes covered, they need to be taught to see."

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Baun on November 19, 2009 at 8:38am

I would monitor when your child uses it. We had a family computer in a common room while our son was growing up--we could keep an eye on things and check the history etc.

A friend of mine had an tramatic experience with AOL--her child was sending out emails with all types of foul language etc. AOL told my friend they were kicking her daughter off because of the quality of the emails and ims she (the daughter)was sending. She was horrified--needless to say--she hadn't been monitoring her daughter. I think the daughter was about 12 at the time.

If you can get an account that you can oversee--that would be great.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel on November 20, 2009 at 4:54am

I am a mother of four children. My older son and daughter are studying at universities away from home. My other two children, a son and another daughter aged seven and nine respectively, miss their older siblings. I want them all to communicate through the internet so that they remain well connected.
But for all this first of all I need a reliable kids email so that I can watch unwanted emails, pictures etc, of their mail and can delete request etc without knowing them. Then one of my friend had suggested me www.kidsemail.org. It provides email services especially for children with unique features like parents can log into their child’s email account, parents can get copies of outgoing and incoming mails of their children, and many such features. These will help parents keep a watch on their child’s internet activities

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