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You can have multiple NOOKs (and iPhones, and iPads, and PCs, and Macs, and...) on one account. However, B&N considers accounts to be personal. All devices will synchronize to the account, so that if you buy a book on one NOOK, it gets downloaded to all of them. If you archive a book on one NOOK, it gets archived from all of them.
And once B&N gets sync working on the NOOK (Real Soon Now), every NOOK on the account will open the e-book to the same page. Having more than one person using a B&N account is not going to be very convenient in the long run.
B&N is quite clear in its Terms of Use that they consider the NOOK, the B&N e-book store, and the B&N Web site to be for use by adults and under adult supervision only. There is currently no provision for usage by minors.
The usual recommendation is to not register your child's NOOK. Create a separate B&N account for them, buy e-books for them on that account, and then sideload the e-books onto their NOOK. It means that all of their B&N e-books will be in My Documents instead of the B&N Library, but it also means that you have much more control over what e-books they're getting from B&N.
After you sideload the first e-book onto the NOOK, open it and it'll ask for the name from the account and the default credit card number (at the time the e-book was downloaded). Enter that information, and the NOOK will store the associated encryption key so that it shouldn't ever need to be entered again, not for that book nor for any other book bought with that name and credit card number.
When they get old enough, you can let them register to their account (which is why they should have their own account).
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