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In my book, Parenting in a Digital World, I showed you how to set up parental controls on all the major computer and mobile platforms. Since publication, Microsoft has released Windows 10. Thankfully for parents, Microsoft has greatly improved parental controls and has included some monitoring features which will make our lives as parents a bit easier. If for no other reason, this is a good reason to upgrade to Windows 10.

You you haven’t already, must first create your own Microsoft account.

1. Go to the Microsoft account sign-up page and tap or click Create account.
2. In the User name box enter your existing email address, or tap or click Get a new email address to create an Outlook or Hotmail address.
3. Fill out the rest of the form, and then tap or click Create account.

Setting Up a Child’s Account

In Windows 10, you will want to open up the Settings, then Accounts, and click on “Family & other users”, then click “Add a family member”.

On the next screen, click “Add a child”. It’s a good idea that each member of your family, including children, have their own account.

Next, you will fill in all the information needed to set up your child’s account. If they do not have an email account, you can set up an outlook.com account for them.

Enter a telephone number to recover your child’s password. This way if you’re ever unable to access the account, such as if it is hacked or you forget the password, you can have a code sent to your phone that will let you reset it.

On the next screen, you can check or uncheck these boxes, It is entirely up to you.

Your child can now log into their account for the first time, and you can set up and configure their account settings using the Microsoft Family Safety tools online.

Alternatively, if yo ...