Apple id for kids not logging in to imessage and facetime

I created a new apple id for my child and added it to my family sharing.
I have used the apple id to successfully login to icloud and the itunes store on the ipod.
But it keeps rejecting the same account for imessage and facetime - error message is to check my network connection.
Has anyone got a solution for this?
Marina

I had similar problem, and tried everything mentioned in the forums to fix it.  Then, randomly, I tried to send an imessage from my iphone to my daughter (who ONLY has imessage through her email, and therefore NO cellular option to receive) and Bingo- a box popped up asking me to sign in to my Apple account. Then it worked fine for everyone.  I don't know why it didn't think I was signed in, because I had signed in everywhere-  but that was the fix.

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