I'm mid 40s, my kids are now 8/10.
I feel there should be a class or something on managing accounts for kids.. what should they be signed up for on their own, what should they be using parent credentials for, what 'family' capabilities do different things have, how do you do this and that. I'm kinda lost.
My kids have a school gmail, but no personal email (yet). I recently got a pc for my 10 year old.. I install windows and it wants credentials for microsoft office 365 and who knows what else at this point. So now my 10 year olds computer has my name on the log in screen.
I tried to put on some sort of 'safe mode' for MS edge, and it says do it in family settings. Under family settings, you can add a kid, but it needs an email or phone number to invite the kid?!?
So I download firefox (my browser of choice); to put safe search on it, it ties into google, and I immediately got lost and gave up.
I figured out to finally get their own child account on their ipads, instead of just signing in as me.
So many other things.
How do parents of young kinds on texags manage it all? Is it best to maybe create a new email for them now (even though they may not be using it) so I can use it to sign up for their stuff (minecraft accounts, roblox, etc etc)
I also signed them up for a united frequent flyer account.. didn't even need an email, which is great, but at some point, how do they even access it???
Medical records.. oh boy. We have 'mychart'. When I log in, it thinks I'm my son. Can't even figure out to get the other child on there.
Talk amongst yourselves, just kinda of thinking out loud here.
I feel there should be a class or something on managing accounts for kids.. what should they be signed up for on their own, what should they be using parent credentials for, what 'family' capabilities do different things have, how do you do this and that. I'm kinda lost.
My kids have a school gmail, but no personal email (yet). I recently got a pc for my 10 year old.. I install windows and it wants credentials for microsoft office 365 and who knows what else at this point. So now my 10 year olds computer has my name on the log in screen.
I tried to put on some sort of 'safe mode' for MS edge, and it says do it in family settings. Under family settings, you can add a kid, but it needs an email or phone number to invite the kid?!?
So I download firefox (my browser of choice); to put safe search on it, it ties into google, and I immediately got lost and gave up.
I figured out to finally get their own child account on their ipads, instead of just signing in as me.
So many other things.
How do parents of young kinds on texags manage it all? Is it best to maybe create a new email for them now (even though they may not be using it) so I can use it to sign up for their stuff (minecraft accounts, roblox, etc etc)
I also signed them up for a united frequent flyer account.. didn't even need an email, which is great, but at some point, how do they even access it???
Medical records.. oh boy. We have 'mychart'. When I log in, it thinks I'm my son. Can't even figure out to get the other child on there.
Talk amongst yourselves, just kinda of thinking out loud here.