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My wife and I have been Amazon Prime members since 2006 and parents since 2013, but it wasn't until 2018 that we started using Amazon Family.
The occasion that led us to start using the service was the birth of our second child. And in the year that we've taken advantage of the program, it has saved us plenty of money, but even more notably, it has introduced us to products and information that we might otherwise never have known about.So what is Amazon Family?
Amazon Family is a free service as long as you already have a Prime membership (if you don't, sign up here). It offers discounts on myriad baby and childcare products, like diapers, wipes, bottles, and so forth, and membership comes with email newsletters rich with information tagged to your child's age. Expect an email with information on teething sometime around the 10th month.
Yes, Amazon uses Family to try to sell you stuff - you can definitely expect to see content promoting baby gates around the time your kid turns a year, for example - but it's stuff you were almost surely going to buy anyway, and at the best prices out there.
Amazon Family offers product ideas and information for kids aged zero through 12 years. You'll start off with curated product lists like "Jumpstart Your Nursery," a collection including rocking chairs, changing pads, cribs, and so on, and before you know it, you'll be clicking on "Gifts for 12-year-olds."
How to set up Amazon Family
If you already have Amazon Prime, then you're just a few clicks away from setting up your Amazon Family account. Or accounts, as the case may be. You can create a profile for several children, and when you go to your Amazon Family account page, you can toggle between the kids to see product ideas and information tailored to for their age (and gender, though that's only questionably positive).
You'll see an extensive "Top picks for your family" with products aplenty, you can browse among articles organized by age (they have titles ranging from "How to raise responsible kids" to "No teeth, no problem. Solid foods for little eaters") and you can sign up for subscriptions to diapers, baby food, and other items you'll need on a recurring basis, saving up to 20% in many cases.Again, you were going to buy all this stuff and read all about babies and kids and parenting anyway, right? So why not just stick with Amazon like you do for everything else you buy, most of the shows you watch, the music, the groceries...