A parent account is a learner account with a family workspace attached. You keep your own Chinese — this is not an observer role — and you gain child profiles, a view of each child’s progress, and the ability to give a child their own login when they are ready for one.
Watch: Parent accounts
1 min 25 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 a parent account begins, and what it asks of you before anything is created.
- A parent account is free: a home for your children’s profiles, the logins you create for them, and their progress.
- Select Create your free parent account, and sign-up opens on the parent card, with what it means set out in full.
- It’s a choice you make once: switching back isn’t something you can do yourself, so you tick a box to confirm it.
- Continue, and it shows you what a family gets first, before asking you a single question about yourself.
- Then it asks for your name and date of birth, because you are the one giving consent for a child.
- And your child’s first name, with their age, starting point and goal as optional extras you can leave.
- Continue stays off until those are in, and the next steps create your account and confirm your email address.
- Once you’re set up, the red bar holds your family’s four tabs: Family, Stats, Explore and Guide.
- That’s a parent account: free, chosen once, and built around your children. Next, add a profile for each of them.
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What it gives you
- Child profiles — A record per child with their name, age, level and goal. A profile is not a login — it is how you keep track before, or without, giving them one.
- A family view — Every child in one place, and for each with their own login, when they last practised.
- Per-child progress — Lessons completed, streak, XP and study time — the same figures your child sees about themselves.
- An explore launcher — Things worth suggesting, at each child’s level.
- Your own learning — Unchanged. A parent account is a full learner account.
The red banner swaps its tabs for Family, Stats, Explore and Guide once you are on a parent account.
Profiles and logins are different
This is the distinction the whole feature turns on.
A child profile is a record on your account. It holds a name, an age, a level and a goal, and it exists so you can plan around a child who does not have an account. It is not a person who can sign in.
A child login is a real account, created deliberately, with its own email and password. The child signs in themselves, studies themselves, and their progress is theirs. Creating one requires you to affirm guardian consent, and that affirmation is recorded.
How many children
Up to 20 profiles on an account, which is a technical ceiling rather than an expectation — it exists so a homeschool co-op or a childminder is not blocked.
The Family plan at $39 a month covers Pro Plus access for up to two children, plus the parent dashboard and weekly reports, on one bill. Profiles beyond that are still tracked; what the plan covers is paid content access for the children who have logins.
Getting a parent account
- Choose the parent role — During onboarding, or by changing your account type afterwards.
- Add your children as profiles — Name, and optionally age, level and goal. Two minutes each.
- Decide about logins later — Nothing forces the decision now, and a profile is useful on its own.
Common questions
Yes. A parent account is a full learner account with the family workspace on top. Your lessons, progress and flashcards are unaffected.