Family Share Organizer, no Request to Purchase notification

Hey guys,
I have recently enabled the family sharing for my family, which includes my two daughters, and claimed myself as the organizer. Now that the Request to Purchase feature is enabled for my daughters, my wife will receive the notification on her iPhone 6 and her iPad Mini, yet I will not receive the notification on my iPhone 6 or iPad Mini. This has been the case since the start of the family sharing.
I found my wife and I are both operating on iOS 8.2 for our iPhone 6s, and iOS 8.1.3 for our iPad Mini; our versions and hardware match, exactly, causing me to believe this is more of an issue with my iCloud account or a configuration issue. The only location that I seem to receive the purchase notifications is my Mac Mini, to which, I usually get the notification much later than when the request is made.
I confirmed my account is the same between iTunes and iCloud settings on both devices, I have power cycled both devices, and I cannot seem to find a forum discussion with a solution. I cannot help but think I am missing something.

UPDATE: As an act of desperation, I upgrading both my iPhone 6 and iPad Mini to 8.3. Immediately following, the Request to Purchase notifications started coming through.

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I know there's probably an easy solution here...
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My three daughters are set up as children with Ask To Buy turned on.
When we try and make a purchase on our daughters' devices, it only asks my wife for permission, not me as the organizer. Is there a way to ALSO have me (the organizer) flagged as a Parent/Guardian approve? Seems odd that despite me being the family organizer if my wife is not home I can't approve one of my kids' purchases...
Thanks for any help.

My family sharing is set up just like yours (three sons instead of daughters LOL). I'm labeled the organizer and do not have a toggle for parent/guardian. However, when they ask to buy we both get a notification. I rarely accept them, since my husband has his phone more accessible at all times. The few times I've noticed the requests come in, I find that sometimes I can't find the notification again.
On a side note: I was not aware that each purchase would be billed to my credit card regardless of my iTunes balance. I knew I would be paying for all purchases, but not being able to use my account balance to pay it is extremely annoying. Prior to Family Sharing being available all their devices were under my id. So any gift cards they received were redeemed under my account. Now I have their money and can't use it to buy their things.

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its my Apple ID and it's basically been hijacked on a device I dont own and someone else has been set up as family share organizer in my own Apple ID and I can't seem to do anything about it.

You really need to get the apple id straightened out before you start, or you will pay the price forever!   You have a couple of options. I assume your dad is cooperating with this project. I think you are probably right about using his apple account.
Make sure you have established the second e mail address and that to works.
Log onto apple.com, and in the upper right, log into the account. Once in the accout, click on the area where you can change you data, and add the second email address.    Apple wil verify the adress by send it an e mail, and won't do anything further until you respond to an e mail sent to that address, so watch for it.
After the address is verified, on your accout page, make that address your primary address contact from apple. That way if apple sends confirmations for apps and things, they will go to the new address, and your mom won't see them. Then set the pad up using the same aple Id as your dad. Remember, you have not changed the apple id or the password, you have only changed the e mail address for contact.   ( you can change it back after the surprise)
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I gave a pad to mom in law, and did pretty much what you are planning, and at the end of the day, having it all set when she openied it made it harder for her to learn, rather than easier.
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Family purchases and payments - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/HT201079
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Leave Family Sharing - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/HT201081
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Theaternerd,
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Hi again Christiaan, I'd be wary of upgrading your server just for this feature. This article mentions the pitfalls of the different server setups, loss of server preferences when upgrading etc...
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