Under Parental Controls

Please help. I just purchased a new iMac and I was trying to set up the parental controls. There is a section where you can give access to only certain emails. I added a few but need to delete some and I have looked everywhere for a delete or edit option and I can't get rid of them. There is nothing in the small handbook we were given. I am sure it is something right under my nose, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I'm a bit confused but I'll give it a try.
When you add an allowed contact and check "add person to my address book", That adds the contact information to your (the administrator) addressbook. That contact may already exist in your addressbook. To edit or modify that information you open your Addressbook application. The two functions are seperate.
You can add allowed email addresses in Parental controls without adding that person to your addressbook or you can select an existing contact in Your addressbook.

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