Email Accounts for Minors

Question

More and more schools are asking for gmail accounts for kids around middle school. Parent of those who have experience with this can you share your best practices?1) person email domain vs Google provided 2) how do you monitor the account? Can you setup alerts ?3)what else do you recommend based on your learnings?

sarcasmatwork · Accepted Answer

Gmail supports emails for kids. Adult owns it and can link to the kid account.https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103338?hl=en

codingdave · Answer

In my experience, the school provides the gmail accounts directly, and it is all managed by the school.