How to teach your parents to email

electronic mail for your parents and grands

This quite challenging for both of you. If your parents are good in computer you are lucky, it will just be easy for you to teach them how to Internet and emails. Imagine yourself when you are still a novice computer and Internet user. How much time did you spent to learn all this stuffs? You might build a bunch of patience as you start your journey of making them learn.

1. Choose any email services that you think it would be easy for them to use. (Yahoo! MSN, Gmail etc).

2. Create an account to any of them. Show them how you did it but do not expect them to learn on the spot.

3. Create a short cut icon for the email service provider of your choice in computer desktop. Show it to them and explain how to open it.

4. Teach them how to sign in and out, how to make create email messages, type email address, etc as you wish. Also try to teach them how to attach images or documents, how to forward emails or even the simple copy and paste tools.

5. Evaluate them by sending email to yourself and how to reply emails.