ICloud with multiple devices - one Apple ID

2 ipads - one for me and one for my children
1 apple ID - mine (kids aren't technically old enough)
2 - emails - .mac and .me (currently the kids have aliases under the .me which are collected in a folder
Somehow in the set up my original ipad was set up with my email ending in .me and the kids was set up with .mac
As the dust has settled somewhat in configuring both to have seperate imessage and facetime capablities which I have managed to do, I would like to switch the e-mail accounts so that the .mac account is listed on mine and the .me listed on the kids. 
Is anyone aware of this situation and can help. 
My secondary issue would be to find a way to use mail where my e-mail can be hidden from the kids.  I don't think this is possible but I thought I would ask?
I appeciate your responses.

What, exactly, are you trying to do? You can use the same iCloud account on as many devices as you want, as long as you don't turn on iTunes Match. Once you turn on Match, you're limited to 10 devices total.
Is this what you want to do...same iCloud account, but different iTunes/App store accounts on each device? If so, you can do that also.

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