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.
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.
- 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, activity and results — the same figures they see about themselves. 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.