Kids
College Starts This Month: Warn Your Kids About the Dangers
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Credit cards companies. They’re out there, waiting to offer your kids a free t-shirt, free lunch, or just about anything it takes to get them to complete an application. Before you send them off to college, warn your kids about the dangers of credit cards.
Although many colleges prohibit credit card companies from soliciting on campus, […]
The kids keep on taking
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I started chuckling right after reading the first sentence of this Money magazine article:
At this point in their lives, Tony Carideo, 57, and his wife Linda, 56, of Bloomington, Minn., thought the financial load of raising their four kids would have become considerably lighter.”
My oldest is 15-years-old so I don’t have first hand knowledge about […]
Teens and the Credit Card Jungle
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I got a surprise in the mailbox the other day, something I didn’t expect to see quite yet.
Actually, I’m stretching the truth a bit; my 17-year-old daughter Lindsay got something I wasn’t quite ready for—her first credit card offer.
It was from 1st Financial Bank.
Now keep in mind that my daughter is a senior […]