2 iphones in our household and the second one is receiving the first one's text messages

My son and I both have the iphone 4.  We share the itunes file. We just ran the last update to 6.1.2.  The next morning I had a message on my phone that said my son's phone was using my number and all you could click was the ok button.  Throughout the day as I was receiving and sending text messages my son was also receiving them.  Thinking they were for him he was also able to join in the text messaging.  I went to itunes and that menu is now different too and I could not find anything that would stop this.  Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?

This happens when you both use the same Apple ID for iMessage.  To fix this you have two choices:
On one of the phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with a different ID.  Note: you can still share the same ID for purchasing in Settings>iTunes & App Stores; or
On both phones go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and uncheck the email address(es) shown under "You can be reached by iMessage at".  Also uncheck the other phone's phone number, if present.

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