Another new site this spring is iCanBuy , targeting kids and teenagers. Having looked through page after page of this site, it's clear to us that this company has thought of just about everything. Privacy needn't be a concern. Parents and children both register separately. Only parents can give out credit card numbers.
Parents have their own purchase-management screen for reviewing and approving purchases.
If all this seems rather materialistic, iCanBuy has that base covered, too. So iCanBuy's young customers can give to charity. If that's not enough, users can engage in monitored chat about managing money, earning, shopping, and saving. We can see that, for some families, it could be quite an effective teaching tool. Then there's the backlog problem.