How to stop music automatically downloading?

Right, so I bought an iPad air for my daughter to use for school. I'm an experienced Mac user, but thus far have managed to avoid iOS 7 (or any version of OSX higher than 10.6) but with the iPad I don't get a say, unfortunately.
Anyway, after throwing up a few times and buying some extra dark shades, I managed to bring myself to using the iPad. I set up with my Apple ID, applied restrictions, downloaded a few apps and songs I'd bought for her on my iPhone and all seemed good. Then I shuffled songs in Music and found that it downloaded a song from my purchased list that I hadn't specifically installed. I've turned off any form of automatic syncing and definitely not subscribed to match. So I was rather surprised (and annoyed) - and now have a couple of questions...
1) Is there a way to turn this off? I want to control what is on this device, thank you very much...
2) Are content restrictions still applied? I can live with the Evita soundtrack, but really do not want to find "I wanna xxxx a dog in the xxx" by Blink182 going on there, amusing as the song might be to an adult.
Hopefully someone can shed some light, this kind of scenario is exactly why I'm still running earlier versions of OSX on my Macs...
Ta.

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On her iPad go to Settings>iTunes & App Store>Automatic Downloads> Turn off auto downloads for songs, apps and books, this way, whatever you download on your devices will not download to her iPad. Do the same thing on your iPhone, you can do likewise in iTunes on your Mac if you download content in there, but once you turn off auto downloads on her iPad, she will not get your stuff and you are controlling what she downloads, so her stuff will not end up on your devices.
On her iPad also so go to Settings>iTunes & App store>Show All>Music>Off and Videos>Off. You may have inadvertently downloaded one of your purchased songs by having this feature enabled. When this feature is turned on - all of your purchased music will appear in her Music App - with a cloud icon next to each song. If you tap on the cloud icon, you can download the song right in the music app and don't have to go to the purchased tab of iTunes. The same thing applies to purchased videos.
What happened really doesn't have anything to do with restrictions, so as long as you enabled restrictions properly, you should be OK.

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