Comments on: Email for Children : Yahoo Family Account

By: john

john — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:35:08 +0000

I’ve had a yahoo account for a long time. I created an kid account today. I thought the kid email process ok and I didn’t freak at the credit card deal. I’m in IT and understand the verification process. What I DO NOT LIKE is the fact the I have to manually login to the account to monitor activity. If I want, for example, to have email forwarding of any type – I must pay for an upgrade. Forget it. Gmail lets me forward for free in any number of ways.

There is also no way to navigate to that account I created except to sign out and sign into it – with all of its restrictions. It doesn’t show as an account I created anywhere. I guess all I did was give consent. And if there is a place for administration it is MOST difficult to find. If there is not – this should be stated clearly. It might be somewhere, but for the life of me, I could not find it.

However I have heard a number of good things about KidMail, so I am going to give that a try. Man Yahoo, what a disappointment. I’m going to cancel this account tomorrow.

By: stacie

stacie — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:34:20 +0000

go to yahoo U.K.

By: john robins

john robins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:45:19 +0000

Things like this are nice to talk about but sure does suck to be involved in a accident like this!

By: joey

joey — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:28:55 +0000

a email account for the age 8

By: Mike Call

Mike Call — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:25:28 +0000

You’ve got to be proactive in this stuff to protect your kids. I, personally, use http://www.kidsemail.org for my family.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:40:01 +0000

The cc issue is no big deal. The real issue, is that once you have a yahoo email account for a child under 18, they still place advertisements for dating web sites for singles and other ads that are not appropriate for children, so there is nothing “family” about the yahoo mail.

By: maria

maria — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:28:52 +0000

HOW DO YOU GET A SMILEY FACE

By: Tracy Johnson

Tracy Johnson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:38:41 +0000

I just tried to make an account for my daughter under the family account and its asking for my credit card number, of course i won’t give it. But the funny part is that it WAS going to charge me 50 cents to verify. Some of that money was going to go to charity but I’m not going to pay anything for a so-called ‘free’ account.

By: Nancy Travis

Nancy Travis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:57:27 +0000

Ladies, the system my family have been using is KidMail:
http://www.KidMail.net

No, my husband didn’t find it on his own — CBS NEWS did a great story on the whole subject and highlighted KidMail’s uniqueness in having multiple trust levels:
http://cbs11tv.com/local/Technology.Children.Kids.2.498272.html

Some of these services are “PC”, some are Mac — some are programs for download, others are accessed with Internet Explorer — some are American, some are not — there are numerous choices.

KidMail makes it easy to use and trust, and they’ve been around for years. If you’re like me, where precious time is stretched between ballet lessons and making dinner, I can tell you we’ve had nothing short of great results.

(I wish I got a commission every time I pointed out a great product or service like this!!!)

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:16:33 +0000

Lisa,
In answer to your question, yes there are several other websites that offer family email accounts. Mu personal fave is http://www.safensoundmail.com
AND added bonus, you don’t have to give your credit card details – least not in the first 30 days (free trial).
Oh and also, yeah Jon, safensoundmail don’t have adverts which is a BIG plus for me since I think kids get enough of that in the world already.