Changing home page on parental control account

Set up an account for my five year old. Used parental controls to customize access to select websites. Every time I login, it goes to apple start homepage. From Safari, went to preferences but change homepage is not highlighted. How can I change it?

TechNotKnow wrote:
From Safari, went to preferences but change homepage is not highlighted. How can I change it?
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
You may need to temporarily change that account to a "standard" one, make the change, then set it back to the more-restrictive setting.

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