My Eight Year Old Wants his own Email Account

Dear Cybersorter,
My eight-year-old wants his own email account. He and his five-year-old brother are now active on peer sites like Binweevils.com and Panfu, for which they have accounts monitored by me or their mum.
But the push for an email account is a push for freedom. So I’m wondering what the common view is?
Some parents seem to be very laissez-faire. I think Im probably draconian, but happily so.
NMG

Dear NMG,
It is understandable that your eight-year-old is frustrated at not being able to move his bin weevil or kung fu panda into the sixth dimension without first having to ask mum or dad to send an email.
The online world is not conducive to the theory of delayed gratification and nor are children, but in this case I think your instinct is sensible.
Sign them up and I predict your next email:
“Dear Cybersorter, My son has just asked me what Viagra does and why it is so expensive. He went on to confess he had given my credit card details to several exiled African princes who offered to post some money to him.”
The wonderful thing about safe online games and chatrooms for kids is that they are carefully policed, both by the platform and the parents.
The solution is simple and relatively cheap. ZooBuh.com is an email account for kids that parents can monitor, set times of use or approve certain email addresses to go straight through.
At €9.31 per year it is considerably cheaper than Viagra and the teenage years in therapy.