I recently allowed my 8 year old daughter to have an email account but she can only have her cousins and very close friends on her contact list. Every now and then, we sit and review her emails together because I want to see what she’s doing 
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Anyways, a couple of her contacts included her on some chain type email which said something like if you don’t send this to 15 other people, you will die at midnite! Now, the innocent senders have a whole bunch of friends on their CC so those friends in turn, reply back to the entire list, so my daughter, for example, received this life threatening email several times!
Maybe all kids aren’t that sensitive, but my daughter was very upset about the message of the email and last night she asked me to close her account because she thinks she isn’t ready for this yet :D. Well of course I went through the long shpeel on how these emails are nothing but junk and that people just do all this for time pass and are not to be taken seriously, and she was OK finally, BUTTTT, my question to you parents is, how do you monitor your children’s email activity? Do you? Where do you draw the line? These thinks are bound to happen as your network grows so how do you train your child to handle these unnecessary issues?