Also - you should make some gmail accounts for your kids, my son’s had his since he was 6. Tired of borrowing your parent’s credit card to buy things online? Try the PAYjr Visa Buxx Card.

Reading comprehension for the win!

Milo - thank you for stopping by and taking my comments constructively. It’s always nice to see folks stop by who do I’ll ask our teenagers to look in more depth at your site and provide some additional feedback either here in the comments or by separate post linked to this one.

As you have picked up on, we are targeting the site at kids ages 4-13. The reason is that we felt that the fundamental concept of getting points instead of cash and having parents sign off on kid purchases would not appeal to teenagers who are most interested in exploring their own independence. But I am certainly interested in hearing more feedback as to whether this assumption is indeed true. I would love to hear direct feedback from your own teenagers about whether they would use a similar service that was correctly marketed to them — hippier look and feel, music video downloads instead of cartoons, etc. Also if this service were for teenagers, would the teenagers still want cash in addition to points for their allowance? Or perhaps the parents could fund a gift card or bank check card when they redeem points in order to give them more purchasing freedom.

I am also very interested in learning at what age a kid typically gets his/her first email account. This was an issue we were on the fence about as to whether to require a kid to have an email for registration. We decided to require this because the site is trying to promote some autonomy for kids in managing and tracking their tasks and goals. But I definitely see the benefit of allowing kids to share an email address with their parents. We are currently in beta tests right now, so this is definitely something that we are open to changing before our formal launch.

Thanks again for the feedback!