ACE and your email address

[clep3705]

In the digital millennium, not having an email address is a problem. Just because a child has an email address doesn't mean the child has to have access to it.

It's fairly common now for parents to open email accounts for children when they are born, much like how kids apply for Social Security numbers at birth. Once the child is at an age you the parent consider appropriate, you can give the child the email address and password.

When choosing a free email account for anybody, you want to pick a provider likely to stick around. That's why I recommend Gmail and Outlook.com. You also want something that sounds professional. That's why I don't recommend Hotmail or Yahoo.

I would not use a single email account for more than one person.

Web based email is pretty good these days, but having a good email client on a device offers certain advantages. If you configure Outlook or a free client such as Thunderbird or Opera email, you can access all of your email accounts in one place. This is important because it logs you in to each email account. If free email accounts are accessed periodically, they go away.