"OKParents: Giving your kids their own email addy"
When? Do you keep the password?
We have no illusions of privacy in our household. You may get it but it ain't a right. And I'm not so much worried about what they saying in private emails, but just the pandora's inbox it can become. Gateway drug to the web.
*shrug* i'm doing it this week just not sure if i'm keeping the pw or not.
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3. "my 10 y.o.'s done fine with it" In response to Reply # 0
he basically only emails one friend from last summer's day camp once a month... doesn't see the need to email his school friends he sees every day yet or anything. All the other emails come from me & the rest of the fam.
The real gateway drug is online games he can play in browsers... miniclip games and shit like that.
5. "Mine has one for using with his chromebook but I have access and" In response to Reply # 0
i'm able to check all of his internet history, his chrome store purchases, his google play purchases and etc, since essentially my email is the master account.
12. "I did this as well and I was amazed at how advanced he " In response to Reply # 7
was in writing in comparison to his classmates. At the time he had an iPod touch and everyone else had an iPhone and he was essentially " texting" everyone with iMessage. My only requirement to everyone that responded to him was that they do so in complete sentences and no " text talk" and abbreviations.
9. "age (for everything) is based upon the child. never an absolute." In response to Reply # 0
having 6, we've come to that conclusion fairly quickly and still employ it. they all have different personalities, react differently to stimuli and differing levels of maturity and responsibility. so we got more of a parenting template and we adjust it w/ each one.
we were just talking w/ our 3 that's home about stuff that our 23 y.o. is doing (nothing bad, but just about decisions she's made and the impacts on her and how she handles stress, etc).
her not being on her feet (yet having insisted to move out the crib into her own apartment and incur expenses ) is kinda messing it up for everyone else, b/c my 16 y.o. can't get his license b/c we can't afford to put him on the insurance while she still on there. *sigh*
>When? >Do you keep the password?
not explicitly. but that's expected, that we can see whatever we need to if we have a need to.
> >We have no illusions of privacy in our household. You may get >it but it ain't a right. And I'm not so much worried about >what they saying in private emails, but just the pandora's >inbox it can become. Gateway drug to the web.
for real. fuck all this new-agey "i'ma let Cody have a glock, a tv, cable, a computer, weed and beer in his room behind locked doors and trust him to make his own decisions because i respect him as a human being".
nope.
we trust them a lot and they have a lot of freedoms, but that shit ain't absolute, and we're unapologetic about that.
> >*shrug* i'm doing it this week just not sure if i'm keeping >the pw or not.
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PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Mon Mar-23-15 05:33 PM
10. "one of the homeschool programs we used gave us chromebooks" In response to Reply # 0
so we gave the two kids in that program email addresses for them. Ultimately we found that ChromeOS didn't support any of the classroom apps that the school used so I complained and we got Win7 laptops.
Those same email addys are in use for their Android tablets now and my wife and I have the passwords.
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