Messages going to all devices

Hello I need some help...both my husband and I have iPhone 4 phones, we also have an iPad. We bought our son and iPod for Christmas and while setting it up I must have done something wrong as now it seems that messages are going to all devices. At this time we only have one Apple ID for all, my question is is it best if I set up a separate Apple ID for the iPod and if I do that will my son still be able to have the music and apps from the original Apple ID? Or is there a way that I can have all the devices be separate while only using one Apple ID?

Before going through the trouble of creating a second Apple ID, you should open all of your devices and go into Settings>Messages>Send & Receive. Here, you can assign everyone one and only one designated phone number (or email if the device is not a phone) to send and receive messages from. This will make life a whole lot easier than having multiple iTunes acounts to deal with.

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