Do Your Kids Have Email?

It was hard for me to push aside my overprotective mothering instincts and allow my children to be normal kids. I admit that when I had my first, and even my second, children I was very much an overprotective mother. As a matter of fact, family and friends often thought I was crazy because they allowed their children to do so much more. It wasn’t until after my third child was born that I started to let go a bit and ease up. My Mommy instincts were still there, but I realized that my boys are going to have to learn a little what they can and can’t do.

Now that my boys are a bit older, and I have 5 of them, I’m a much more lenient mother. Don’t get me wrong, they still have some strict rules to follow, but I do allow them to explore a little more on their own.

Our oldest son wanted to get his own email account. I had to really think about this because I have heard so many people talk about online bullying and how it can really hurt a child’s self esteem. I came across a site called, Kids Email and was immediately interested in the concept of it. I just wasn’t sure what my son would think.

We discussed it and he agreed to try it out–he really wanted an email account.

We signed up for an account and I was able to monitor what comes in and out of my son’s account.

Now I will say that he didn’t use it much. He doesn’t have a lot of friends with email accounts, and they would rather hang out in person, however I have spent quite a bit of time checking it out.

I love all of the features offered:

• Allow child to only receive and send emails from those in their contact list
• Email a copy of incoming and outgoing messages to the parent
• Remove images within emails
• Remove links within emails
• Only allow specific attachment types such as: images, pictures, video, mp3s, zip, pdf, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.
• Allow a parent to approve or deny any email sent to your children via the mail queue
• Filter out offensive words found in incoming emails
• Spam filtering
• Kids can modify the look and feel of their account by choosing from several fun templates
• A simple mode for young children as well as an advance mode for slightly older kids

Anything that allows me to keep my children safe is always a bonus in my eyes.

What do you think about this new email?

Do your children have email accounts and do you monitor them?

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