Ask HN: Best email service for kids?

[scandox]

Looking for an email service for my Godson to use. It would have to have white listing for incoming mail and some mechanism for parental oversight.

Has anyone had good experiences with this? Also interested in whether people think it's a good idea for a nine year old to have their own email..

[satuim]

My only suggestion would be to set him up with a Gmail and try and play around. I think there could be mail forwarding in the settings.

Although its probably just best to let get his own personal address. I had an email at the age of 10.

[atmosx]

I can't think of any good parent oversight mechanism except from receiving a copy of every message that is sent or received from that inbox and this doesn't sound like feature.

[075]

Just a question, what does he _need_ email for?

[jotux]

I was visiting some family recently and their ~5yo son was interested and playing with code.org. You can do the exercises without a login but with a login (which requires an email address) you can save progress and have a profile to share with others.

[scandox]

Good question: at present mainly so I can answer his programming questions and send him learning material. We live in different countries.

[farmchick]

I would love to invite you to use Kids Email, it has awesome parental controls - no ad and no spam.

[DrScump]

Please tell me that he's not a Nigerian prince.