Help !! ios 6,iphone,Two ipods & and ipad totally confused !!

Please can someone help?
I have an iphone 4 and an ipad, both my boys have an ipod and everything runs under my apple account.
My first problem is that neither of the children can face time or message. Have set them both up with gmail accounts but neither ipod will accept the associated passwords despite being re set to ensure they are correct.
They cant receive messages from me, which is what i wanted for them, do i need to give them each an apple id? and if so how do i regulate their app store purchases?
and when they are given an app store voucher, whos id does it go on?
My second problem is that since upgrading to ios6 one of the boys is getting all my text messages showing up on his ipod and the other still cant open his messages.
I have messed around with the settings on both ipods but to no avial and I am now totally confused.
All I want is for someone to explain how the boys can face time/message, how my messages stop from appearing on their ipods and as for my ipad well i give up!!
please surely it cant be this difficult?

You have to set them each up with their own Apple ID, then log out from your Apple ID on their devices and log in with theirs. Make sure that Facetime and Messages are set to receive calls/messages on their Apple IDs, not yours.

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