Creating an Xbox account for my child? Do they need their own (Microsoft) email account?

Hi there,

This link should answer all of your questions:

https://support.xbox.com/en-CA/help/family-online-safety/child-accounts/add-family-member-on-xbox-one

From what I've read, you will need to create an email account for them, but part of the process will allow you to do that as well.

Hope that helps.

Just know that by using your own emails to create accounts for children, their Xbox accounts will forever be tied to your emails. All of their game saves, acheivement score, and purchases will need your emails to be accessed. It is always better to create new emails for child accounts so that when they get older, they can manage their own accounts without needing to use someone else's email.

My son has his own account, which is connected to my email...and my other email is strictly work

It sounds as tho the account, son's (gamertag) setup on the XBox is an adult account using your email assigned to your Microsoft account.

What needs to happen is an adult xbox account (think gamertag) needs to be setup with your adult email used for Microsoft account and then use the family setup and make your childs gamertag on the XBox a child account not an adult account.

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Hope you're doing great today CANNONFODDER26

Unfortunately each child needs to have their own account
Each Xbox / Minecraft profile is associated with only one Microsoft account

This means that you need to create a new Microsoft account for each child + purchase the game on each account

The @xboxlivefamily.com is the Microsoft Account assigned to an account when created through the Family Plan. It is not a real email so if you change the Microsoft Account name it will require an actual email at that time.

@xboxlivefamily.com is only a temporary Microsoft Account. You can create your child an email of their own using the outlook.com email and change it to that but at this time that is the only option.