How do i ignore my sons app store updatyes and eliminate them from coming up in the future

I just took over my sons mini mac and we thought we took everything out related to him to make it mine but I notice I am getting imovie and iphoto promts to update those apps. Im signed into itunes so not sure how to completely clear these and eliminate future updates  for him on my new mac, I am so new at the mac that im struggling to find current OS I just did update and this mini is new back in Sept

IMHO i would do a complete reinstall of the OS and have yourself a nice clean Mac Mini.
First do a Backup with Time Machine, or use something like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and make a Bootable Clone of the Mac if you have Applications, movies, music, documents and so on if you dont want to loose them.
Then open the Mac App Store and hold down Option while you click Purchases then you can see the Mountain Lion or Lion ready to download again.
Download which ever OS that came with the Mac Mini, then follow the instructions in the link below to make a Bootable copy of the OS and do a complete clean reinstall.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/clean-install-mountain-lion/ And now its your Mac dad

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