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Novenachama
Email for kids should not be a problem as long as the parents are able to receive a copy of all incoming and or outgoing emails that is sent to and from your child and if you choose to restrict times of the days and days of the week that your child can login. If you allow your child to receive email from anyone, you should block specific people by adding them to a custom blacklist. The parent should be able to intercept an email that failed the safety rules that you set for your child such as someone not in their contact list attempting them to send an email so then the parent can approve the email to be sent to their child or deny and remove the email from the mail queue. Other than that you are good to go and your kids should have a safe email account.
sf2k
sounds like drug dealers; hook them while they're young
Junaid Raza
Now that is cool and good for parents to keep an eye on their kids while kids wont need to put in wrong information specially regarding DOB
turbotsat
Google and/or Facebook will lock/disable account if you give them birthdate indicating age under 13. And no way to get back. So I had to create another account for my 10-y-o, with fake DOB. I have his gmail attached on the folder view on my Thunderbird email client so I can see his emails if I want.
Leszek Rybicki
@sf2k too late. 3-year-olds click around YouTube like nobody's business for their animation fix. "YouTube for kids" is actually a good idea, I think.
turbotsat
There you go. Add a kids. prefix, like kids.youtube.com, kids.google.com, and penalties for websites that do not comply. Then we'd just have to set the kids' browsers to only read kids.. sites.