A child profile is a record on your account: a name, and optionally an age, a level and a goal. It takes about a minute, needs no email address, and is the thing everything else in the family workspace hangs off.
Watch: Adding your children
1 min 20 s · presented by Jason, Mandarin Temple's AI tutor
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- Hi, I’m Jason, Mandarin Temple’s AI tutor. Here’s how to add a profile for each of your children, shown on a demonstration family.
- Your children live under Family, in the red bar: one card for each child you have added so far.
- A profile is a record on your account rather than a login: a name, an optional age, and where they are starting.
- To add another child, select Add a child. Their name is the only thing you must give, and no email is needed.
- Add stays switched off until there is a name; the age and the starting level are yours to fill in or leave.
- A profile without a login comes off with the cross on its card, once you confirm, and nothing else goes with it.
- Until a child has a login of their own, Stats says so plainly, rather than showing figures nobody ever recorded.
- A child with their own login is different: that is a real account, so its card offers Delete account instead of a cross.
- That’s a profile for each child. When one is ready to study alone, you can give them a login of their own.
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Adding a child
- Open the Family tab — In the red banner, on a parent account.
- Give a name — The only required field. A first name is fine and is what appears throughout your dashboard.
- Add an age, if you like — Used to pitch suggestions. Optional, and nothing is gated on it.
- Set a level — An HSK band, or "new" if they are starting from nothing. Changeable at any time.
- Note a goal — Why they are learning — school, family, an exam. It shapes what the Explore tab suggests.
What a profile is for
Two things, and neither requires the child to have an account.
It gives you somewhere to keep track — level, goal, and what you have been working on together — for a child who studies beside you on your own account. And it is the record a login is later attached to, so a child who starts on your lap and later works independently keeps the same profile.
Editing and removing
Removing a profile that has no login removes the record and nothing else: the × on its card, after you confirm.
A profile with a login is different — that is a real account with its own progress, and closing it is a deletion rather than a tidy-up. Choose Delete account on the card: your child is signed out at once, you can restore the account for 30 days, and then it is erased with its profile. See exporting or deleting your data.
How many
Up to 20 profiles on one account. That ceiling is not an expectation — it is there so a homeschool group or a childminder is not blocked by a limit of three.
What your plan covers is separate: the Family tier includes Pro Plus content access for two children with logins. Profiles beyond that are still tracked.
A profile is yours
A child profile always belongs to the account that created it — that is fixed on the server rather than sent by the browser, so a profile cannot be attached to somebody else’s account by accident or otherwise.
Common questions
No. A profile needs a name and nothing else. An email is only required if you later create a login.