It might be worth noting the recommendation from several sources - while it's "cute" to give your kids "kiddy style" email addys, it does open the door to people who look for juvenile "victims."

If at all possible, give your kids Adult looking email names if you're letting them hook up. (Of course, subject to your ability to get the little monsters to take any good advice.)

It will also help you keep track of who they're talking to, if you've got more than "FROM: fuzzybunny" with "SUBJECT: Way So Coool!" when something gets dropped in your mailbox and you need to bring it to their attention.

(Side note: lots of those "cute-kid" names look like the ones favored by porn SPAM sites too.)

As to Google being able to look up a phone number - I thought that's one of the things it's supposed to do. And any $25 roadmap program can show you where any address is - or at least a commercial approximation to it.

John