Should I set up a separate Amazon account for my kids' Kindle Fire?

January 15, 2016 11:36 AM

or share my account with them?

I just bought a kids Amazon Fire tablet for my 7 and 9 y.o. I have an Amazon account and my wife has an Amazon account. Should I set up a separate account for the kids? My wife and I share an iTunes account and it is a bit of a pain as every app she buys shows up on my phone and vice versa. Will there be any sort of overlap like that on Amazon? I don't have a Fire but that that isn't to say I won't some day. Also, I'm thinking of things like playlists and movies. If I start downloading movies from Amazon are they going to start showing up on my kids' Fire as well?

Thanks

posted by pandabearjohnson to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

No, use Family Library. Each adult has their own account and the children are part of an adult's account; you can manage everything pretty well.
posted by Huck500 at 11:43 AM on January 15, 2016

Agreed, just did the Family Library thing with my kid and his new Kindle. HOWEVER -- be aware that the process is not as intuitive as you might like. For example, once I added my kid, and his device, Amazon made THAT the default device for my account, and so that was totally stupid. And of course I didn't notice until something wildly inappropriate started downloading onto his device. Little stuff like that.
posted by BlahLaLa at 11:55 AM on January 15, 2016 [1 favorite]