Credit card companies cannot get cards to kids even though they would love to. However, BillMyParents.com is kind of a bridge that may let kids use their parents’ credit cards indirectly. How does it work? The kid without a credit card goes to the BillMyParents site and then goes shopping. The site works with Amazon, more »

In case you haven’t heard of it before, “Sexting” is the term used for sending risqué photos of yourself electronically, usually via text message. And apparently it has become all the rage with teens now-a-days. Besides some of the obvious problems associated with this, those teens can also be sent to jail and officially labeled as sex offenders for doing it.

The law is clear

The law is pretty clear. Child pornography is a crime. So take a photo of someone under 18, where he or she is nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit, and if you are the one who either produced, distributed, or possess that photo…guess what? You are breaking the law. Even if you are only 14, and it was a photo you took of yourself to send to that cute guy you met online that you want to go out with. The laws are pretty darn cut and dried and don’t distinguish between “traditional” child porn trafficking and sexting. So, do it and you can be prosecuted on a state or federal felony level, and can even lead to having to be labeled as a sex offender.

There are lots of methods of educating children offered these days. Private school, public school, online charter schools. But somehow it seems the actual education kids seem to be getting is often on a downhill slide. And to many, this is a major concern. The latest in the list of ways to help fill in the gaps you think your child’s schooling may be lacking, or even if you just want a little “extra,” is Brightstorm. Continued after the break.

So, Junior just got his license and you’re worried about how fast he’s going to be ripping around the neighborhood, huh? Well, Ford just may have the solution you’re looking for. They’re coming out with the new MyKey and it is aimed to help parents both monitor and limit certain areas of their children’s driving habits.

With MyKey, drivers won’t be able to go over 80 miles an hour, and a warning chime will go off at 45, 55 and 65 miles per hour. Kids won’t be able to turn on the radio until they are nice and safe and secure by fastening their seat belt. Even once they can turn the radio on, there isn’t much danger of them blasting it, since the volume is limited to 44 percent of the maximum allowed.

Finishing up it’s two-day convention in San Fransisco yesterday, YPulse National Mashup is a yearly event that brings together youth media and marketing professionals from brands, agencies, and the non-profit sector to share practices for reaching today’s totally wired youth. And this year’s findings were a rather obvious one for anyone walking around any school, mall, or other teen gathering place. Teens are becoming more and more mobile and cell companies, advertisers, and other media companies plan to be sure to capitalize on this.

And capitalize on it they will indeed be able to. It’s estimated that teens wield a whopping $200 billion annually in discretionary spending. Yep, you read that correctly, and it wasn’t a typo. Two-hundred BILLION. Today’s kids must be charging much more for lawn-mowing services than back in the day, or else get one heck of an allowance.