Your family

The person who creates the family becomes its first admin automatically. After that:

Children get a name and a colour but no login of their own: no email, no password, nothing to sign in with. You can tag them on events and to-dos, and admins can control which adults get reminded about their events (see below). This is specifically built for kids, not a general “add anyone without an account” feature. Every other member, however old, signs up and joins normally.

Two ways, both admin-only to set up:

By default, every adult in the family is reminded about a child's events and warned if something clashes. Admins can narrow this per child from the “Child event reminders” section, useful if, say, only one parent handles a particular activity. At least one adult always stays selected, and leaving everyone selected is the same as the default (a later-joining adult is automatically included too).

This is a family-wide setting any admin can change, affecting prep to-dos linked to events for everyone.

An admin can remove a member from their entry on the Members list. In short:

• Their private to-dos and private events go with them.
• Shared events and lists they created stay, reassigned to the admin who removed them.
• They keep their FamKnit login. They just land back on the “join or create a family” screen.

If you signed in a while ago, FamKnit asks you to confirm it's you before this goes through. The same applies to leaving and to deleting the family below. See Your account & data for how that works.

You can leave any time from the Family tab. It works the same way as being removed, with one extra rule: if you're the only admin and other adults remain, you'll need to promote someone else to admin first. If you're the last adult in the family, leaving deletes the whole family (any children on it have nowhere left to be).

A record of who changed the family, and when: renaming it, rotating the invite code, someone joining, a child being added, roles changing, a member being removed or leaving, and the family being deleted. It's collapsed by default, hidden behind a “View” button, since most admins will rarely need it.

It never shows email addresses or IP addresses, on any screen, to anyone. If FamKnit ever needs to look into a security question, that detail is kept, but not surfaced here (see Your account & data for how long).

This permanently destroys every event, list, and to-do in the family. Nobody's FamKnit login is affected. Everyone just ends up without a family, same as after being removed.

One rejection cancels the request outright. The person who started it has to begin again if they still want to.