We have little to no tools for parents to limit what their teens could see on Nostr at this time. That's kind-of the point of a free-speech protocol. Every user is just a key-pair. There is no special key-pair for minors. Clients have absolutely ZERO method of determining how old the person is behind a private key, because there is no KYC, and that is BY DESIGN.
That said, I think there is a way some parental controls COULD be implemented by a parent using NIP-46, where the parent holds the private key, rather than their teen. For instance, if the teen was not given their private key to log into Nostr clients, but only a bunker string that would send signing requests to the parent's instance of Amber signer, the parent could have pretty granular control over whatever the teen is doing on Nostr. They just wouldn't have a lot of control over what the teen could potentially see, other than being able to approve or deny particular requests to follow an npub.
Any client that has a "global" feed would still give the teen access to all sorts of sensitive content.
Another big downside of this option is that since Nostr requires virtually everything you do to be signed, parents would get annoyed pretty fast with all the manual approving they need to do for every little thing. That can be mitigated a bit by allowing auto-approval for certain basic actions, such as reactions, zaps, and such.
I see no need for special key-pairs for kids.
Key-pairs for kids could be generated from and controlled by parents' keys (as in a btc wallet).
In this way, safety settings and content moderation are placed in the hands of parents via a set of fine grained permissions.
Among these permissions, there is of course the visibility of the "global feed".
If the above scheme is properly supported by Nostr clients, moderation by parents might be a one-off effort.
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