The best thinking about credit cards
Learning to immediately discount any appeal that flatters their ego is essential to dodging bad student credit card offers. * Teach them to interpret the small print. Credit card issuers hide the details of student credit cards' terms in blocks of minute print or in long, bewildering tables, couched in jargon as dry and obscure as possible. Knowing what the jargon in credit card offers means and how to find the important information in a welter of irrelevant details is a skill your daughter or son will need to choose a credit card wisely. * Teach them to evaluate special offers.