Postal Letter - What is the best free email service with parental controls so kids can email safely?

What is the best free email service with parental controls so kids can email safely?

I looked into kol.com but my dd doesn't want that. Gmail doesn't seem to have any parental controls, and aol.com is too cumbersome. Yahoo doesn't seem to have a kids service either ... any other suggestions for web-based kids email with easy to use parental controls? Thank you for all of the parenting advice, but that's not what I was asking. For the record, my dd is 11 and really doesn't need porn in her inbox, or emails from people I don't know.

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i think gmail
Honestly, I had aol when i was a kid, until i became a teenager, then i upgraded to gmail. I remember that aol did have some parental control, but the best control out there is you. Watch your kids and set some ground rules on using the computer and the internet
kol.com is the only one I can think of with Parental Control. -Good Luck :)
it use www.hotmail.com and its pretty safe you can set it up so it is really secure its at www.msn.com the just click on hotmail
Probably Gmail, AOL is good but its not free. Gmail even logs the chats / IM's sent on an account so a parent would be able to go back and review them later. Also sent mail and received mail is almost never deleted allowing a parent to view what was going in and out of the account.
here is a link that lists several of them
What exactly are you worried about? Your kid having a heart attack over a spam e-mail about penis enlargement? I can see blocking access to certain websites, but trying to censor e-mails is taking it a little too far. I guarantee your son or daughter knows more than you think he or she does.
I have 5 kids and even one of the neighbor kids using Zoobuh Parents can have as much or as little control as they want. I have it set so only people who are on my kids contact list can email them. I do let them add their own contacts, friends and family. But anyone not on their list tries to email them it comes to me. So I can either approve or delete it. It cost $1 per kid per month, but it's worth it for the safety and the kids love it. They have blogs for kids too. We haven't tried them yet.
From Internet Explorer: click Tools Internet Options Carefully review Security, Privacy, and Content tabs. Also, on the Content tab, click "enable." Here, move the slider to the left - to 0 - to prevent smut from entering your PC. A warning though - I have made a legitimate search and found these malcontents sometimes choose what sound like valid titles only to find them garbage. It happens, but fortunately, not too often.
i Advise Keyloggers :D lol its what i use -_^ tho i am only 16 and i use it on my parents... Anyway lol i can keep track of what my brothers and parents do on the internet and block sites, Programs, and other things that i don't want them doing -_^ oh and PS a keylogger tracks what they say... gives you exactly what they type and gives you passwords! :) lol its why i have one on my comp :) lol oh and one more great thing you can also limit the time they can spend on a program, or user sessions lol Ahh its great stuff... umm heh Email me at Kyle92591@yahoo.com and i can walk ya thru some of this stuff on yahoo IM? lol umm heres a site where you can download a few good keyloggers/Perental Control programs Go for Freeware, its the full program Shareware you gotta pay for it - but usually better program see for yourself. Enjoy Child Safe internet Freeware programs http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/misctools/fwparents.html PC Activity Monitoring Freeware programs http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/security/fwaccessmonitoring.html Enjoy, lol. Email me at Kyle92591@yahoo.com ill help ya with some if it if u want help... Good luck :) oh and LAST THING, really if you just install a keylogger on your computer and then one day you ask um about a few questionable sites or emails they got -_^ Lol Scare um bad enough to not mess again... i Highly advise you tell um when you install it tho -_^, and if they don't believe you they find out the hard way... Good Luck!
yes. its called parenting. use yahoo/hotmail/gmail. any of them. periodacly scan your child's email with them present and watch what they do online. if you use somethign like parental controlls to controll something like email, then they will find a way to do it behind your back. if you are a good parent and teach your kids what to do, and why to do it. then you dont have to worry about them doign anythign behind your back.