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- Parenting Experts: Kardashian Kids' Credit Card a Really Bad Idea - Pop Eater
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| Parenting Experts: Kardashian Kids' Credit Card a Really Bad Idea - Pop Eater Posted: 12 Nov 2010 10:32 AM PST   Out of the goodness of her heart, Kim Kardashian launched a credit card this week for kids as young as 13 in what she says is an effort to teach them how to spend wisely. The famously extravagant reality show star and sisters Kourtney and Khloe unveiled the Kardashian Prepaid MasterCard, touting it as a way for parents to monitor their children's spending while teaching them money management skills.Sound all warm and fuzzy? Not so fast, say parenting experts. "If I were to select a spokesperson for responsible spending for children, they're the last people I would go to," Beth Feldman, founder of Role Mommy, tells PopEater. "They're completely out of touch with reality, they're ridiculously wealthy. They are promoting the excesses of having everything you want in life and not really working very hard to get it." Feldman doesn't think it's a good idea to give children in middle school or high school a credit card at all, whether or not parents can put a fixed amount of money on it and track its use closely. "I think it's more important to keep the cards away for as long as possible," she says. "Wait until they really need it -- if they're away at college, in an emergency situation. The best credit limit for a kid is not to give him a credit card." Kim Kardashian and her sisters, the stars of the E! reality show 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians,' are famous for driving Bentleys, wearing fancy, expensive clothes and generally living in the lap of luxury. Kim, in particular, is also known for her vast array of sponsorships -- everything from perfume, clothing and jewelry to diet drugs and self-tanner. "We are excited to partner with Mobile Resource Card to create our very own financial product," the Kardashians said in a statement ahead of the Tuesday launch. "Now our fans will be able to take us with them everywhere." And that's exactly what worries parent advocates, who say teens are very impressionable, especially when it comes to their favorite stars. "Celebrity endorsements are particularly compelling to adolescents who want to identify with these icons by imitating how they are and doing what they value or recommend," parenting expert Carl Pickhardt, author of Psychology Today's blog Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence, tells PopEater. One of his recent entries was about giving teens credit cards. Not surprisingly, the credit card's sponsor, Mobile Resource, defended the new Kardashian plastic. "Teens do not spend their money as their parents think they do," a company rep told the New York Post earlier this week. "And drugs are a huge problem in this country. I give my son a small amount of cash and track his spending on his card." But Susan Newman, social psychologist and the author of 'The Book of NO: 250 Ways to Say It and Mean It,' says there's been a long-running debate over college-age teens having credit cards, let alone those in middle and high school. As a result, many card companies have been prohibited from soliciting business on school campuses. "Giving them a credit card is, for the most part, a bad idea," she tells PopEater. "We're not selling a pair of sneakers here. You're really giving a child carte blanche, even if you stipulate the amount. Teenagers are very impulsive. Many of them will just purchase whatever they see." And those familiar with the Kardashian sisters find it laughable that they're the ones behind the new credit card for kids, considering the lavish lifestyle they lead and promote. "They represent the indulgent part of our society," Feldman says. "They're the poster children for the wealthy. 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Perfumania Teams Up With Kim Kardashian To Be Featured On NBC's "The Apprentice" Provocateur at The Hotel Gansevoort New York, NY United States November 10, 2010 Photo by Mathew Imaging/WireImage.com To license this image (62410387), contact WireImage.com Mathew Imaging/WireImage.com WireImage.com NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Apprentice contestant Steuart celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Jonathan Cheban celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Apprentice contestant Steuart celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Jonathan Cheban celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) Television Personality Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian attend the celebration of Perfumania and Kim Kardashian�s appearance on NBC�s "The Apprentice" at the Provocateur at The Hotel Gansevoort on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. Perfumania Teams Up With Kim Kardashian To Be Featured On NBC's "The Apprentice" Provocateur at The Hotel Gansevoort New York, NY United States November 10, 2010 Photo by Mathew Imaging/WireImage.com To license this image (62410387), contact WireImage.com Jonathan Cheban celebrates Perfumania's appearance with Kim Kardashian on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York City. Perfumania Celebrates Their Appearance With Kim Kardashian On "The Apprentice" Provacateur New York, NY United States November 10, 2010 Photo by D Dipasupil/WireImage.com To license this image (62410261), contact WireImage.com Donald Trump celebrates Perfumania's appearance with Kim Kardashian on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York City. Perfumania Celebrates Their Appearance With Kim Kardashian On "The Apprentice" Provacateur New York, NY United States November 10, 2010 Photo by D Dipasupil/WireImage.com To license this image (62410286), contact WireImage.com NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Donald Trump celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Donald Trump celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 10: Piers Morgan celebrates Kim Kardashian's appearance on "The Apprentice" at Provacateur on November 10, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 12 Nov 2010 09:49 AM PST  www.gapcastingcall.com Voting for your 'fan favorite' in the Gap Casting Call contest - with a $1,000 prize - ends Sunday.Will the cutest kids win the Internet contest to be the new faces of Gap - or children with parents who are masters of Facebook? Increasingly, people who've mastered the art of social-media marketing are stuffing the online ballot box like a cyberversion of the old Jersey City dictum to "vote early and often." Unlike Jersey City, it's all perfectly legal - but it ain't fair. "Vote for Bitty Larry in Gap Casting Call 2010," writes one mother on Facebook next to a photo of her blond toddler. "Keep submitting your daily votes." "Don't forget to vote for Nathalia everyday," reads another emoticon-filled Facebook entry with a kindergartner in sunglasses. "Help make me a star!" says Jensen, who looks about 7. "Thank you to everyone who has become a fan, shared the link, and voted. You all ROCK! Remember to cast your vote daily." Voting for the "fan favorite" - with a $1,000 prize - ends Sunday. Gap judges will then take the top 20 vote-getters and choose a boy and a girl and a baby of each gender to have their modeling photos in every Gap in America. A peek at the website shows "Katherine" has gotten the most votes among girls - with a whopping 171,221. That means about 3,400 people a day have voted for her since voting began Sept. 27. And Penny, with 79,381 votes, is the lead baby girl. But is she that much cuter than Jaidyn, with 63 votes, or Brooklynn, with 92, or even Ava, with 456? We're waiting for the folks at Votefortheworst.com to goose votes like they did with Sanjaya on "American Idol" just because he was annoying, and start drumming up clicks at the Gap site for a homely child, a real "meeskite" as they say in Yiddish, just to mess with the process. "We certainly encourage people to use social-media tools," Gap spokeswoman Kimberly Terry said. "We think it's a fun way to get parents engaged." Not to mention marketing the casual-clothing colossus while they're at it - or capturing all those email addresses for its mailing list so it can bombard you with brochures ad nauseam. The stakes are higher at the Pepsi Challenge Project, in which the soda giant is giving away $1.3 million every month to finance "great ideas that have a positive impact" submitted by groups, companies and individuals. Grants range from $5,000 to $250,000. No one at Pepsico chooses finalists: Whoever gets the most clicks, and there have been 50 million of them since February, wins. "It's really a completely democratic process," said Pepsi spokeswoman Melisa Tezano. Sure, if your idea of democracy is stuffing the ballot box like Frank Hague or even Saddam. The Pepsi site is chock-full of entries, including one from a community center in Punxsutawney, Pa., that needs new drapes and another from a cat-neutering program in Ohio. If it has a Facebook whiz in the group, Ohio cats should be getting nervous. Still, they'd beat out some really worthy causes, like The TE'A Project (no relation to the Party), a group of young New York actors who perform "Under the Veil," a play promoting understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims. "It's all about social marketing, and if you have a big mailing list," said TE'A Project founder Radha Kramer. "It's hard to compete against the Humane Society, which has 8 million members." Pepsi's Tezano says the company even sends contestants Bess Cantor's book "The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting With Social Media to Drive Change." In other words, if you can't beat 'em, you're gonna have to learn how to stuff it yourself. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| thredUP Brings Kids Clothing Swaps to U.S. Military Families Stationed Overseas - StreetInsider.com Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:48 AM PST
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