Set up parental controls for 1 child on two computers

Here's the scenario that I have and I would like some help to determine if it is possible to what I want to do.

My wife and I just bought two Surfaces, one of her and for me.  We have a son who we know that we will share our devices with.  It will probably use his more than mine.  It has a Microsoft Account because he has an Xbox Live account, thanks to our family of Xbox subscription.  I wanted to lock him on Surface machines using parental controls, but here is where I am currently.

(1) I have set up Microsoft account my son on the Surface of my wife and indicated that it is on behalf of a child when I did.

(2) I used my wife's account to configure all settings families on behalf of my son, such as the allocation of time, hosted the games and sites, etc..

(3) I signed up for the family web site by using the account of my wife and could see everything.

(4) I then created Microsoft has my son on my own Surface, also indicating that it is on behalf of a child when I did.

But now I'm stuck.  I was really hoping that the same settings we had a machine would be then on the other account, but appears not to be the case.  I don't see his machine within the parameters of the family and she can't see mine.  When I try to add him to my family, he said "this person has already been added to the parental control.  So, it is a primary, and so I am.  Here are my questions:

(1) how can I set where I am primary and my wife is a secondary antibody (or at least a parent who may approve things)?

(2) will be the security settings, we have set up the synchronization of one single machine with the other somehow or we must manually preserve us allowed applications, etc all in harmony between the two machines manually?

Hi Mike,.

What I mean by my statement is that as long as the child is managed by a single parental control (for example you as the account parent principal, manipulation of the child), the settings on the Web site will be synchronized on all machines).

Regarding your second question, it would be necessary on behalf of primary parent to have a user account for both computers. It would be better if you remove parental control on both machines first configuration so the settings would be better implemented according to the configuration you prefer.

Thank you!

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