I would like to make my microsoft account not a child account, but the email to the parent...

Thank you for contacting us! I'm Anderson, an Independent Consultant and a Microsoft user like you.

good afternoon

I advise you to recover the account with the recovery form or create a new parent account:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

...My son has an email that is already linked as my "child" if I remove that and change the account to his email as the primary alias and then remove mine, will I then be able to add him back to my Microsoft account as my child, now with my old gamertag
as his (so he can keep all his stats and such)?

As I described above, be aware that if you remove a sign in alias from a Microsoft Account, that Microsoft Account gets DELETED!

If your "parent" email is a Gmail or Yahoo or other third party email, that's not a problem, as the Microsoft Account "only" is a username that looks like an email. And if you didn't use any other Microsoft services like OneDrive and the likes, the account
deletion is not a problem.

However, if your parent Microsoft Account is a Microsoft service email like "live.com", "outlook.com", "Hotmail.com" or the country equivalents like "Hotmail.co.uk" or something, then be aware that removing that Microsoft Account from your son's account
will delete everything from that account, and you'll basically creating a new and empty parent account!

thank you for this. If I make my parent account and associated email address a child account instead will I need to/ should I add an additional account to act as the parent?

Hello, I hope you are able to get this account back. Follow this link to try and go through the process of account recovery. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-account/microsoft-account/forgot-microsoft-account-solution I would look through my email addresses
and see if you have any emails that show you fortnite items purchased. Maybe that will help you see what email address you are using. Check a parents address too it might be under the parents email instead of the childs. If you are able to get back into the
account I would change the password and email address if needed. I hope you make it back in!!!

It's great that you want to make such an amazing gift for your friend's grandson.

While others already described how to remove your account, please help your friend make an account for himself (an adult account), and a separate (child) account for his grandson.

Some (grand) parents make the mistake of using their own adult email account and let the kid play with that.

However, by using their own adult account for the kid, the kid is regarded as an adult for the console, and the parent is unable to prevent the kid from talking to internet strangers for example, or limit the playtime. Also, this prevents the kid from going
on an (accidental) shopping spree, and buying stuff from the Xbox Marketplace with the parent's credit card or bank account.

So please advise your friend, that when they create an account for his grandchild, that he (or the father of the kid) should create their own adult Microsoft Account and then a separate child account (by giving the kid's actual birthdate during account creation).

After the child account is created, the parent should then go to
https://account.microsoft.com/family and add the child account to their family.

That way, the parent can set permissions and privacy options to make the Xbox a safe place to play.

Additionally, this avoids later issues, where the kid would be able to access the parent's email or other Microsoft Services, if the parents let the kid play on their account. Later, you can't move the kid's gaming account away from the parent email account,
without the parent's Microsoft Account being deleted.