You can give your child their own way into aitutors.me — a simple username and password that you create and control. When your child signs in, they land only in their own learner home; they never reach billing, your dashboard, or a sibling's information. You can reset the password, change it, or switch the login off entirely whenever you like. It takes a couple of minutes to set up, and it's one of the most reassuring things you can do in your first week. Here's how it works and why it's built the way it is.

Why a child login is worth it

You could let your child use the tutor from your own account, and on day one that's completely fine. But a login of their own gives them something better: a space that is theirs. They sign in, and it's their tutor, their goals, their points, their Learning Genius — not a corner of Mum's or Dad's account. That sense of ownership matters to a KS3 child, and it does it without handing over any control. You still hold every key.

It also keeps the sensitive parts of the account — payments, settings, other children's data — safely out of reach. Which brings us to how the boundary actually works.

What your child can and can't reach

When a child signs in with their own login, they land in their learner home at /study — and that is the whole of their world in the app. The rest simply isn't there for them.

Your child's login reaches Your child's login never reaches
Their learner home (/study) Billing or your subscription
Their tutor, goals and points The parent dashboard
Their own Learning Genius A sibling's progress or data
Their own progress Account settings

This is a hard boundary, not a polite request. A child login is confined to that child's own space by design. If you'd like the fuller picture of the two views — what your child sees versus what you see — we lay it out in Two Views, One Account.

How you set it up

You provision logins from the Children page on your dashboard. In short:

  1. Open the Children page from your dashboard side-panel.
  2. Choose the child you want to create a login for.
  3. Set a username and a password. No email address for your child is needed — you pick something simple they'll remember.
  4. Share it with your child and let them sign in to their learner home.

That's it. Do this for each child who wants their own login. You can create one for one child and not another; it's entirely up to you.

You stay in control — always

Because you created the login, you manage it:

  • Reset the password if your child forgets it (children do).
  • Rotate it — change it whenever you feel like a fresh one.
  • Revoke it — switch the login off entirely if you ever need to.

None of this needs your child's involvement or an email round-trip. The keys are yours.

The safety details that let you relax

A few things work quietly in the background so you don't have to worry:

  • Failed logins lock the account for a while. That means the login can't be guessed into by someone typing passwords over and over — a simple, effective guard.
  • No email means no inbox to compromise. Your child doesn't need (and isn't given) an email account to use this, which removes a whole category of risk.
  • The learner home is walled off from anything sensitive, so even a curious child can't wander into billing or a sibling's data.

We go deeper on the trust side of this — passwords, lockouts, and the peace of mind behind them — in Passwords, Lockouts and Peace of Mind. And if you're weighing child logins as part of the bigger safety question, Is AI Tutoring Safe for Kids? and UK GDPR and Your Child's AI Tutor cover the ground thoroughly.

When to set it up

There's no wrong time, but the first week is ideal — it's part of the gentle getting-started path in Your First Week: A Parent's Getting-Started Guide. A couple of minutes now buys your child a space of their own and buys you the quiet confidence that they can only reach what they're meant to.

FAQ

Does my child's login use their email address?

No. You create a simple username and a password for your child — there's no need for them to have an email account. You set it up from the Children page, and you can reset the password, rotate it, or revoke the login at any time.

What can my child reach when they sign in?

Only their own learner home at /study — their tutor, goals, points and Learning Genius. A child login never reaches billing, your dashboard, or a sibling's data. It's a deliberately confined space that's theirs and only theirs.

What happens if someone keeps guessing the password?

Repeated failed logins lock the account for a while, so a child login can't be brute-forced by trial and error. If your child forgets their password, you simply reset it from the Children page — you stay in control of access.

Duke Harewood built aitutors.me for his own KS3-aged daughter. A login of her own gave her a space to take pride in — and gave me the keys to keep it safe. Updated 09 July 2026.