Giving a child their own login is the point at which a record on your account becomes a person with an account. It is deliberately a separate, consented step rather than something that happens by default — and this article is exactly what it does, because you should know before you agree to it.
Watch: Giving a child their own login
1 min 28 s · presented by Jason, Mandarin Temple's AI tutor
Captions are part of the picture, under Jason. The full transcript is below.
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- Hi, I’m Jason, Mandarin Temple’s AI tutor. Here’s how to give your child their own login, and what your consent covers.
- When your child is ready to study on their own, Create login on their card turns the profile into an account.
- It needs an email address, which can be one you control, and a password of at least eight characters.
- Then comes your consent, in plain words: that you are their parent or legal guardian, and agree to the account.
- Create login stays switched off until you tick it, and the server refuses any request that arrives without your consent.
- It makes a real account linked to yours, records who consented and when, and leaves you signed in as yourself.
- Once a login exists, the card says Login active, shows when they last practised, and opens their own page.
- To take it back, Delete account closes their account at once, and you can restore it from the card for thirty days.
- And a child’s account can’t buy anything, can’t agree to research for itself, and can’t message anyone but you in private.
- That’s a login of their own: your consent first, then their own account, with you still their guardian.
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When to do it
When the child is going to study on their own. Until then a profile is enough, and it costs nothing to wait.
The practical signal is whether they will open the site without you. A child who studies beside you does not need a login; one who does twenty minutes after school on their own does.
What you need
- An email address — It can be one you control — a parent’s address, or an alias. It must not already be in use on the site.
- A password — At least eight characters. You choose it and pass it on.
- Your explicit consent — A deliberate affirmation, not a pre-ticked box. Without it the request is refused outright.
What is created
A normal account, with one difference: it is stamped as guardian-managed and linked to you.
That stamp is what keeps a minor off the public parts of the site. A guardian-managed account does not appear in the tutor directory or any other public listing, and the ordinary discovery surfaces do not include it.
After it exists
- They study as themselves — Their own progress, XP, streak and flashcards. It is a real account, not a view of yours.
- You keep the family view — Their progress appears in your Family and Stats tabs alongside your other children: lessons, streak, XP, study time and when they last practised.
- One login per profile — A profile that already has a login cannot be given a second one. If the address was wrong, that is a support conversation rather than a retry.
- They are seated on your plan — On a Family plan, creating a login takes one of the covered places.
What you can and cannot see
Their progress and activity — the figures their own screens show them. Not what they typed: not conversations with the AI tutor, not free-text answers, not messages.
That boundary is not a setting you can change, and it is the right one: a child who knows their parent reads their private practice stops practising honestly. There is more in safety and what you can see.
Common questions
No. The request is refused without an explicit affirmation, and the affirmation is recorded with who gave it and when. It is not a formality we let you click past.