For many parents, it is a familiar, sinking feeling: Adding your kid as an authorized user to your debit or credit card – and then seeing a surprise purchase...
NEW YORK - For many parents, it is a familiar, sinking feeling: Adding your kid as an authorized user to your debit or credit card – and then seeing a surprise purchase pop up on your statement.
To be sure, adding a kid to your credit cards is a very common practice because it helps them build their own credit. With a lengthy history of on-time payments, it will be much easier for them to launch financially. Without a credit history, getting car loans, rental apartments or even their own credit cards, can be very difficult indeed.If you do not have an initial conversation with your child about how to handle credit access, you are asking for trouble.
In a similar way, a checking account can be a useful way to teach money-management skills without dangling the temptation of big credit lines. That is how financial advisor Jeremy Keil of New Berlin, Wisconsin, approached the issue. Disclaimer on Apple TV+ review: Cate Blanchett stars in this stylish, slick and sexy psychological thrillerPrincess Fazile, ‘modern Cinderella’ left bereft by assassination of her fiancé, the King of Iraq
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