Unable to change .Mac apple id name

My apple id name is currently a .mac name & I am unable to edit the apple id name to change to a email address so I can access icloud....
Please help!

You are welcome!
You got it - precisely what I meant. When you kid created her id she was assigned icloud.com e-mail as secondary e-mail to her Google account (her primary user name). Icloud server would not "allow" her to change that secondary. In your case - when you created account - you didn't provide e-mail address, so your icloud.com became your primary. For intents of that, your original email is what makes icloud servers to recognize you for all the services(specifically mail servers), therefore can't be changed. You can create new account with your gmail. You can change that gmail on new account to anything you want(with few exceptions) later, but the address that icloud would assign to your new gmail account (icloud.com) will stay with forever. (unless apple changes something).

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