Q wrote:
Free email accounts are readily available, and even if you as a parent don't want your children to use email for various reasons you can make an email to go with each of your kids' accounts and keep the passwords to yourself and access them yourself when your kids forget their passwords.
As a parent of an 8 and 10 year old, I think this is the way to go with siblings on the same computer, under the current system.
If they can't handle having their own email, or if they are old enough but you don't trust them (I know many kids I went to school with, if I was their parent there's no WAY I would let them have their own email that I couldn't see first).... set up an email address for them, create the account FOR them, and don't tell them the password to the email address. If they forget their NP password, YOU take care of it with "their" email.
There's no reason, with hotmail and yahoo and all that, that you couldn't create a separate email for each person in your family. Just because you set it up doesn't mean they get to use it.
HOWEVER, having said that.... I certainly agree it would be nice to link accounts. Linking them would also....
1. force you to only make NP on your main account (if you did on an account designated as a subaccount, it wouldn't work properly)
2. perhaps make it easier to send stuff back and forth
3. perhaps make it easier for TNT to spot folks breaking the rules.