Log in difficulties for icloud acct set up for a child

I set up an icloud acct for my under-13 child -- so that we can use Family Sharing. Thought it was successful, but now can't login or retrieve pw. Think maybe I miss-keyed the bday -who knows - but is there a way to retrieve it? Won't accept my or my daughter's bday in order to get to security ?s. When I use the email option, nothing comes to me. (I was under the impression, this would somehow link to my acct - for this purpose - since it didn't ask for any other recovery info.) Any advice out there??

Hi there Julew9,
It sounds like you are trying to reet the password for your childs account but the email doesn't seem to be coming through. It should come to the email that was setup for them to use, and if you check that and still don't see it, you should use the information in the following article to help locate it, named:
If you didn't receive your verification or reset email
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

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