Safe email addresses for children?

[Kendodd]

I want to set my 8yo up with an email address, anyone know of one where she can only send and receive emails from pre-registered email addresses?

i think the law in the uk is that you would have be 13 or older to sign up for online provision of services, this would include things like facebook, gmail, yahoo, flickr, twitter etc...

but if you must then the answer is probably no. You can create a gmail account and set up contacts within it and then set all other emails senders to be sent to the spam folder.

you can go further, if you have a desktop the child will use, you can use outlook or mail on mac to auto delete these. Something i haven't done since outlook express was the only way

We use kmail.org for the DCs. There is a yearly fee but the service includes a safe list of senders that you monitor and any mail from senders not on that list goes to the parent to approve before it the child sees it. It's also spam free. There's a younger version for little ones and a slightly more grown up version for pre-teens that we use for DD.

The service has it's own app that you can put on child's phone /tablet too.

i think the law in the uk is that you would have be 13 or older to sign up for online provision of services, this would include things like facebook, gmail, yahoo, flickr, twitter etc...

Is this true? I'm not sure it is because she had an online account with something through the school, she can sign-in, do homework and play games on it. Also if it's illegal, well, what do they do, come round and arrest us/her/the service provider?

but if you must then the answer is probably no. You can create a gmail account and set up contacts within it and then set all other emails senders to be sent to the spam folder.

That's great advice I'll look at that, thanks. I also want to block her sending emails to contacts not already in her address book though, and we are the ones who control who and what goes in the address book.

i think the law in the uk is that you would have be 13 or older to sign up for online provision of services

No. It's more complicated for American companies to offer service to those under 13 (COPA), so by claiming everyone's thirteen they make their compliance easier. There's no equivalent UK legislation, and in any event it's about the companies' obligations rather than the users'.

Try safeandsound, that's what we use for dd. you get to approve all emails before your child sees them and can approve or reject senders.