xbox Live Child Account Can't Complete Registration

Once you register an xbox live account as a child account you can't change it. The parental account can change privacy settings of the child account though.

I am sorry Mister G I appreciate you trying to help but I think you are completely missing the point of the problem. I don't want to set up a child account with a different region, I am definitely in the same region as my son - United Kingdom.

When I try to set up a child account on My Xbox, and then link it to a parent account, if I use a *.COM email address for the parent account I get an error message saying "the region for the child account doesn't match the region for the parent - please
check your region and try again", but if I use a *.UK email I don't get this error message and am able to proceed with linking the parent account to the child account.

I believe the error message is erroneously saying the region is wrong, just because my region is United Kingdom and I am not using a *.UK email address. In the UK we do have *.COM email addresses too you know (hotmail.com/gmail.com).

You have kindly checked that there is no drop down to select region from the My Xbox "join xbox live" process, it clearly says in fact "United Kingdom" on my sons registration and again on my own registration, therefore the error message about "the region
for the child account doesn't match the region for the parent" is wrong and prevents me from registering this Xbox live account.

Please review the details in the thread again and understand the problem being described by several people.

Thanks.

You can't change a child account into an adult account once registered for xbox live. You can modify the DOB under your MS account's page yet that will not upgrade a child account into an adult account for the live service.

You need to wait for a message from Xbox live saying welcome then after that I may take a few days for the registration to complete

You can't change an adult account to a child account. Once registered in the live service servers the account can't be changed.