My 9yr old now has an ipod touch (v v generous Grandma Claus this year!).

I’m struggling to find any good advice as to how to setup his ipod / the home mac / itunes / etc. so it’s appropriate for a kid.
Someone must have done this before…?
I don’t want to turn everything off.

ipod – I want to let him facetime and message with his mates, watch safe youtubes, browse safe web. I guess he needs an email account.

itunes – I already have an itunes account, lots of music/apps etc. Currently have a playlist set for syncing his ipod music.
Is there an advantage setting him up a ‘no credit card’ account? How can he still see all my music? Is there a ‘home share’ option in itunes?

Any help?

OpenDNS can restrict net surfing if set up on the router, but not 100% so you still need to monitor use. Not sure if it’s possible to restrict youtube.

Short answer

Your apple I’d for buying / sharing content

Open a joe blogs@me.com ( apple I’d ) for nipper

U can do it in the I cloud settings

when I looked (about 18mo ago) you could only have either “on” or “off” for each feature, so allowing cbeebies on www also means potential access to razzle.com

as richmars says, open DNS or similar is an option – is applicable to all machines that use yr router so stuffs up your pron use too (unless you’re very clever with routers) – the wife and I both use vaguely medical sites (and Czechdonkeysnuffpron.com of course 😉 ), some of which are blocked by default though you can make individual exceptions

dunno about itunes accounts – I set up new ones as I don’t have an ipod/iphone anyway

Whats OpenDNS?

how times have changed, rember geting my first dial up at age 11, then i descoverd fat bird porn…… good times…

c’mon, that’s too easy

how times have changed, rember geting my first dial up at age 11, then i descoverd fat bird porn…… good times… id never censor my childs net conection. But i would give them a long talk to about giveing out youre IRL stuff, and meeting people IRL.

You can see what porn does to a brain! jumpupanddown can remember the porn at 11, but can’t remember posting about it 4 minutes before the second post 🙂

You can see what porn does to a brain! jumpupanddown can remember the porn at 11, but can’t remember posting about it 4 minutes before the second post

thats the weed i started smokeing at 13….

In a few words, OpenDNS checks the web addresses you or your son are trying to look at, and only allows things you’ve allowed. It’s easy to set up if you have a fixed IP address from your provider, but still possible if you don’t.
The advantage is that if you set it up on your router, it works with any connected device, pc, lap top, DS etc.

3 fookin hrs Christmas day setting two up for two kids who have no previous email addresses!! Ended up opening a gmail account for them! Used my apple I’d and will monitor everything they do.

this makes me miss the old internet… o to be 11 again.. i had a right arm like popeye

OpenDNS – had not spotted that before…looks like it could be v good.
Presume it does not care what service provider you have etc?

My 6yr old has an ipod touch whicb we got her last Christmas. Witb the exception of email whichdhe doesnt need she can operate it nearly as well as me, i guess that’s normal these days as she was prety comfortable on my iphone when she was 4.