New User Account and Changing Permissions?

Yesterday I opened a new user account for each of my kids. I moved and/or imported all their stuff to their respective accounts and all seems fine. Except for one folder... The most important one (of course ;o). It has a big red circle saying "..you don't have access".
This work was done while he was still using my account. So I have since brought it back to my desktop and all is fine. Am I correct in assuming I need to change permissions on this before he can access his folder on his account? If so.. I've never done this before. Can somebody please be good enough to walk me through this? I can not lose this file. There are no copies anywhere else. Please help!

There are no copies anywhere else.
This would be good time to make one, before you do anything else!
I have since brought it back to my desktop and all is fine. Am I correct in assuming I need to change permissions on this before he can access his folder on his account?
Rather than trying to change any permissions, my suggestion would be:
1) Log into your own account and move the folder from your Desktop to your Public folder.
2) Log into your son's new account, navigate to the Public folder back on your account
HD>Users>yourname>Public
and drag the folder from there onto the current (your son's) Desktop.
This will COPY the folder into the new account rather than move it, and in doing so will correct all the permissions automatically. If the folder is very large, make sure you have enough free disk space for this copy. You can later delete the original from your own Public folder if you wish.

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