Parents are giving kids as young as 5 their own debit cards in effort to teach them financial literacy and money management. Getty Images/iStockphoto They’re only tweens, but they’re already ...

Getting credit cards for kids can age you. I should know ... They are good kids, but recently, one told me she could feel her frontal lobe finally kicking in. That's the point, really.

This small act inspired Rubino to start her own charity, Cards for Hospitalized Kids, when she was just 16 and a student at Maine South High School. "It started out really small," Rubino said ...

I texted her immediately to ask if there was a mistake ... targeted ads for products and services. That said, debit cards for kids are typically no riskier than their adult counterparts for ...

On the other hand, for my daughter's birthday, I gifted her a $300 Visa gift card.” No matter which way ... and this has an incredibly adverse effect on both kids. Parental favoritism is a ...

The Chicago-based nonprofit was started in 2011 by Jen Rubino, whose own experience as a hospitalized kid inspired her to found Cards for Hospitalized Kids to help uplift others. Beginning with ...