How to Protect Your Kid's Email Accounts

Making sure that your kids' online communications are safe is not an entirely easy process. It takes patience, effort, and diligence. You need to begin by keeping your children educated regarding safe practices when communicating online whether via email or otherwise. But that is only the start. Even the most informed child is prone to making the wrong choices just from a lack of life experience and from innocence to the intentions of others. Children simply feel that they are invincible and no amount of warning will change that.

It's not that you want to instill a fear of the internet or of people into your children, but a serious level of caution is highly recommended. To backup this sense, it is advised that you always supervise the online activities of your children. It is something that should be taken very seriously, and at least until your child has reached into their teenage years, it is appropriate for you to limit the amount of time that your child is allowed online and that you should oversee any of his or her activities while there.

You will also likely want to invest in a parental guarding program to install into your computer that will block out sites that have a certain rating, and will let you have greater control over where your children can and cannot go on the world wide web, and will give you an accurate history of where they have gone and what they have done there.

Be sure that your child is well aware that he or she should never share any of his or her private and contact information with anyone or any site online unless you give your specific permission. You may want to look into any email addresses with which your child wishes to communicate, using a free email search. This lets you enter the address into a lookup field so that you can find out what other data has been registered to it such as a name and address or a company's info. This will help you to make your decision as to whether or not it is safe to use.