User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-1025281-20130625012729/@comment-1216259-20130625032756

Maybe so, but it's definitely something to tread lightly, considering how much people hate pop-ups, & the lengths they're willing to go to spite them. But for one thing, there's no reason that multiple solutions can't be argued at once, & for another, I mentioned another solution below when it was revealed why the checkbox wouldn't work:

"Well, regardless, would asking for birth YEAR work? It's not that much to type, doesn't have any variants (like September 8, 1991 vs. 9/8/91), & would screen age without mentioning the 13 benchmark, which is what I assume they're worried about."

Obviously not sure if it will work yet.