Family Sharing Woes for My Kid

We tried installing a free app (Khan Academy) on my kid's iPad after setting up family sharing. Actually it wasn't completely set up because we don't use credit cards and my debit card wasn't sufficient. Now she can't download the app apparently because I had it on my iPad and deleted it. The error message said "Redownload Unavailable with This Apple Id. This redownload is not available for this Apple ID because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled." That was the first time we tried to DL to her device. I removed her from family sharing and still get the same message. The app still has the Any advice?

You can edit the age. On an IOS device do as follows:
1. Click Settings
2. Click iCloud
3. Click on top where it shows you have the user you want to update birthday on logged in.
4. Click on Password & Security
5. On top it shows birthdate. Click on it. Wait!!!
6. It should ask you to answer two security questions you set up for that child. It will then go back to screen before if you answer questions correctly.
7. Click on birthday again and it will allow you to edit the date!!!
It even tells you that you can edit the year if previously set to incorrect date. I'm guessing Apple understood that parents had to fudge the way they had it before. And they got smarter with ios8. Not easier to find, just smarter.
Hope this helps!

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https://www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing/
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My girls, 10 and 12-yrs old, have been on my Apple ID for years. We've muddled through by me just turning off and on certain permissions, but I'd like to considering Family Sharing and getting them their own Apple IDs. I just got an iPhone 6 and we're passing the iPhone 5S to my eldest daughter, so it's an opportunity to do this now.
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Trying to set up iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1) for kid to use as iPod touch.
Used my iPhone 5s (iOS 8.1) to set up a family share account for kid- account clearly shows up in my settings.
When I am setting up the 4S I get to the page requesting to Sign in with your Apple ID.
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So how does the new Family Sharing feature for IOS 8 fit into changing an associated Apple ID? We set up our daughter's iPod with my Apple ID so that we can share apps and content. If we create her own Apple ID listing it as 'family' and then change the ID on her iPod, what happens to the apps that are already there under the primary ID? Will she lose the status for all of her games?

In short, yes, you can create her own ID, invite that ID to your Family Share, and she will continue to be able to use the apps from your ID without any immediate impacts.
From my experience, logging out of an apple id on a device does not de-authorize or remove apps that are already loaded. In fact, I regularly log out of one ID and in to another in the iTunes and App Stores. The issue you will face in the future with your current approach is your daughter does not own any of the apps you have been giving her via your ID. Way off in the future, when perhaps she is no longer in your Family Share, all the apps she got will stop updating unless she re-purchases them. That may not really be a big risk or concern, but its a reality. The only caveat to keep in mind when logging out and in with different accounts is you want to avoid changing the account used for automatic downloads. Apple (due to licensing restrictions from content owners) does not let you change automatic downloads frequently (you're locked in for 90 days). You can still manually download content from other accounts, just not automatically.
Prior to Family Share I thought of content purchases in 3 buckets: what I want to own with my ID, what they own with their ID, and what we want to share. Therefore, before Apple introduced Family Share I create a "dummy" Apple ID for my family as well as IDs for each of us. I keep the password for this dummy account to myself, and I log all my kids devices in to the App Store using this dummy id (it's got a good name we all recognize that has internal family meaning). We often load up this dummy account with gift cards, and when child wants to buy an app, they ask me to put in the password (so I maintain control of what they buy), and through this ID the app becomes available to all of us. Their own Apple ID is used for all other services and is their main iCloud account logged in on their devices. In time I expect they will start to buy their own content using their own IDs. But they will never lose access to the content on our family dummy account as long as I'm willing to eventually share the password with them.
With the new Family Share we will continue to be able to share their personal content until they grow older and "leave" the Family Share. However, when that eventually happens we will still have the dummy family account and be able to share apps with each other using that if we want. We won't lose the apps we bought on the dummy account we share when we stop using Family Share as long as the password is available to each of us.
There are a few limitations to my approach which the Family Share service improves on so I expect to use Family Share as well (I'm still experimenting with it).
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