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Good Email For Kids?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the think-of-the-children dept.

mgessner writes "My kids are starting to want email accounts of their own. Even though gmail does a pretty good job of filtering spam, it's not perfect. Searching the web the other day for kid-safe email, I found a few sites that say they can do the job. What do others do for their kids' email? Pay for it? Just use a free service like gmail or yahoo? I don't pay for email accounts out of my own pocket, so I don't really see the need, but if the cost was a few bucks a month, I'd do it."

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  1. Re:Just do what your parents did.. by TheLink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course. But the flak vests come later.

    First you protect the kids against spam, bad influences, premarital sex, etc.

    Then at an age where if they had consensual sex it's still considered statutory rape (or child molestation) you send them to Iraq.

    And that's when you give them flak vests.

    BTW it seems that many parents bought body armor for their kids, because the military had a shortage of them or something.

    Quote:
    Dan Britt paid about $1,400 for body armor for his son, a medic stationed in Kuwait who had orders to move into Baghdad. He recently heard his son received it.

    "In war, as we've learned through all our history, who gets killed and who doesn't is just happenstance," said the father from Hamilton, Ohio. "But if I can raise the odds, then I'll feel better."

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