HT204053 Avoiding other family members messages/facetime requests

My daughter has just got an ipad mini for her birthday (lucky thing!)
How do i set her up so her facetime requests, imessages etc do not show up on our other devices (iphone & ipad)? I tried to set up her own appleid but she is too young.
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You could simply ensure that only the numbers and addresses you wish to use on each device are checked at Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. However this isn’t an ideal solution because the other person can always change these settings from their device and have some fun with you and your contacts.
You’d be far better getting them to delete your account from their device and have them create one of their own. If you are sharing an ID for some other service such as iTunes, you can continue to do so, you only need change the ID for messages.
She may be too young to have her own account, but nothing is stopping you setting up a second account for yourself, and letting her use it.

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