For Parents

What you are agreeing to when the account is in your name, the money questions, and what this site deliberately leaves to somewhere else.

3 pages here.

• The Account Is In Your Name. What That Means

  On most selling apps an adult has to own the account. Here is what the platforms say in their own words, what lands on you when a sale goes wrong, and the things worth agreeing before the first listing.

• The Money Questions, and Where They Are Answered

  Five questions this site does not answer on purpose, and the exact pages that do. Tax filing, earnings from self-employed work, banking under 18, the rules for a teenager with an employer, and the streaming odds.

• What Is Worth Worrying About and What Is Not

  Four risks that deserve real attention, and two that get far more than they are due. With the official wording on licences, on meeting strangers, and on who carries a refund.