{"id":32071,"date":"2025-06-11T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/parents-are-authorizing-their-young-kids-including-toddlers-on-credit-and-debit-cards-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T16:39:39","slug":"parents-are-authorizing-their-young-kids-including-toddlers-on-credit-and-debit-cards-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/parents-are-authorizing-their-young-kids-including-toddlers-on-credit-and-debit-cards-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents are authorizing their young kids, including toddlers, on credit and debit cards. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A survey from LendingTree shows about one-in-four parents\u00a0have authorized a child under the age of 18 on their credit or debit card in an effort to give their kids a head start on establishing their\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/student-loans-credit-scores-plunge\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">credit<\/a><\/span>\u00a0rating.<\/p>\n<p>While Shannon Ho plays pretend shopping with her daughters \u2014 Aria, 2, and Gemma, 1 \u2014 she&#8217;s also teaching valuable life lessons about money at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>The two young children have two credit cards each. Ho and her husband, Jeremy, added both daughters as authorized users on their existing card accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I figured why not? My parents did it for me when I was a kid. So, I did the same for my girls,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My 1-year-old has no idea what&#8217;s going on. My 2-year-old, however, I do take her to Target every week to buy her cheese crackers and her snacks and she picks two items and she gets to pay. 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