Using Permission Slips

What Are Permission Slips? Responding to Email Requests Responding to Multiple Requests Granting Instant Approval

What Are Permission Slips?

The permission slips feature lets your child ask permission for Internet activities that would normally be blocked for her. Parental Controls offers your child the option to request your permission whenever she tries to perform any of the following restricted activities:

  • View a particular web site.
  • Send email to someone not in her Address Book.
  • Add a new contact to her Address Book.
  • Add a new contact to her friends list.

In each case, you can approve or deny the request. If you approve the request, Parental Controls permanently changes your child’s online restrictions to allow the increased access.

For example, if Parental Controls prevents your child from visiting a web site, she can send you a permission slip asking for your approval to see that web site. If you agree, Parental Controls adds the web address to her list of allowed web sites, so she is permanently allowed to view that page.

Similarly, if your child is restricted to exchanging mail only with people in her Address Book, she can send you a request to add a new contact to the list of approved addresses. When you approve the permission slip, the new contact becomes a part of her Address Book until you remove it.

 

What Is Instant Approval?

Instant approval is a form of permission slip that you and your child can use if you’re in the same physical location when she needs your consent to access something on the Internet. With instant approval, you grant your permission by entering your password directly on the computer that your child is using.

Can I Turn Permission Slips Off?

If you’ve set any Web Filter, Email, or Messenger restrictions on your child, you automatically receive permission slips from your child. To turn permission slips off, you need to give your child unrestricted access by setting her access level to Full Access.

Note: For important information about using Parental Controls with Microsoft Windows Vista™, see AT&T Help.

 

What’s Next

As the parent, you need to respond to the permission slips that your children’s online activities generate.

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Words to Know

  • Access level: a predefined set of access settings appropriate for a specific age range of users.
  • Address Book: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each AT&T Mail account.
  • Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email, instant message, or text message.
  • Friends list: a list of friends, family, and others who also use Yahoo! Messenger; an older name for Messenger List.
  • Instant approval: a permission slip that you grant immediately on the computer that your child is using.
  • Permission slip: a message that Parental Controls sends to a parent on behalf of a child who is requesting Internet access beyond his current restrictions.