Best way to set up the children's new iPods?

[Missymoomum]

My 2 children (7 & 6) are having iPod touches for Christmas and I'm trying to work out which is the best way to set them up in terms of putting the apps and music on them - set up family sharing on them and linkthem to my itunes account or just have the iPods as 'my iPod1' and 'my iPod2' in my itunes account if that makes sense? Is there really a difference in these 2 options? In app purchases etc will all be turned off but due to their ages i want to make sure I control what is on the iPods and besides I don't want to re-buy any apps and music that I've already bought once before. Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. Thinking about it I suppose I'm really questioning whether it's beneficial for them to have their own Apple ID which they will need with family sharing bearing in mind their age or to keep everything within my Apple ID. Not sure which is the best option?

Better - own id & family sharing.
They are young but then won't get any younger, if you just use you id now at some point will want their own id, and all their stuff will be on your id - not good.

Thanks for your replies, we decided on own id and family sharing and that seems to be working well. It also means they don't get all my imessages etc which i hadn't considered before!!