And they can restrict their child to certain online merchants. A site aimed at teens that talks about investing. Chan was more interested in the opinion polls and the dictionary of financial terms. Rodriguez says an Internet shopping site would not be his first choice as a place to teach his children about investing. Sheckels believes some of Doughnet's financial information is too flip.
Parents create a child's account buy using a credit card to fund a deposit.
They can set up an automatic allowance by instructing that a set amount be deducted from their credit card on a regular basis. And they can control where a child can shop and how much they can spend at one time. Kids also can fill out a wish list so that registered friends and relatives can see what they'd like to receive for birthdays and holidays. Gillette also liked all the options, including the teen finance advisers. Rodriguez didn't see much value to the wish list.