hotmail password problems

Tonight we tried to set a new password on my daughter's Hotmail account.   Having given her details she was asked to give a different e-mail address to get a confirmation link and we gave my Hotmail address.   The link that came to me seems to think that it was my account that we were changing the password on and we are now worried that we are both going to be shut out of our e-mail accounts if the passwords have been confused.