Managing multiple family member gift cards on our 1 family itunes account

My family has one Itunes account with sharing across all our Macs, phones, pods and pads.  Is there a way to separate my kids gift cards in the account so they each can only spend their card $ and still allow content to be shared across all family members...and of course prevent them from spending at will against my credit card on the account ???

jndcarey wrote:
My family has one Itunes account with sharing across all our Macs, phones, pods and pads.
This is the problem.
Create an iTunes account for each individual.
Your kids will thank you later when they move out and want to take all the iTunes purchases which were purchased on your single account.
Is there a way to separate my kids gift cards in the account so they each can only spend their card $
No.
However, you can authorize each computer for everyone's iTunes account and everything will be shared.

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