XBox Gold Live as a child. How to start it?

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KlavierComic78

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Just for clarification, is this a child account?

Is there issues when attempting to buy a Xbox live gold subscription?

If this is a " Parent and Child account" then the child account would attempt to buy it then would need permission from the adult account.

If the child has no safety lock on purchases then the account may purchase the Xbox live gold with no issue.

The Xbox live gold does not have to be bought as a gift.

Learn how to
Approve your child’s purchases on Xbox One

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How to manage your child's Xbox subscription

If the parent account has gold set it as the "Home console" so the gold may be shared to other users on the console, if this is a Xbox one.

How to designate an Xbox One console as your home Xbox

Please let me know if that helps

Thank you.

You could do it with two Xbox Live accounts and two lots of the games. Their are four of you, depending on how many consoles (Xbox Ones) you are thinking of adding, depends on how to do it. If you have four consoles, for instance, you have Xbox Live Gold,
so set child 1's console as your Home Xbox. They can then use your Xbox Live Gold and access your copies of the game. You set child 2 up with Xbox Live Gold, plus the second copy of the games and set child 3's console as Home Xbox. Child 2 and yourself can
sign in on your own Xbox and use Xbox Live and the games you have.

Here is more information on Home Xbox: https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/games/game-setup/my-home-xbox

but the message on screen is to have an adult purchase them FOR the child account. So, as the adult that owns the xbox live gold account, how do I do what the system is telling me to do? If, as an adult, I can not buy these for my child, why tell me I
can? And are the very childish avatar skins REALLY only meant for adult players? If child accounts cannot have them, your messaging should not tell the child to ask their parents to purchase them for them. It should just say something like “ Avatar skins (many
of which are obviously designed for children) cannot be purchased for a child account. So if you, as a parent buy your child an Xbox Live Gold account, please know that 5hey cannot access content design ped for xbox live gold members even with parent permission”.

Hello! Welcome to the forums!

First Remember you can make yout Home console and share your Xbox Live Benefits and your games with anyone that login in that console.

No if you want that your childs play each other... Your Child 1 can use the home console to have access to the game and Xbox Live Gold Account. But the other child need to have Xbox Live Gold and the game.

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