Posted on 09/19/2008 5:53:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup
My son was in the Royal Rangers and it has made him the wonderful young man that he is. His leader has been a huge impact in his life. When the troop disbanded he was sad, fortunately football and dirtbiking has helped.
That’s a good foundation!
Honey, if you are 30 years old you have been in babymaking capacity for half your life. LOL
“Do you have any economic advice for them?”
1. It’s not just what you earn working that determines your financial success. How you invest, save, and manage your assets is a huge determinant of your financial future.
2. It’s more important to be able to lay your head on your pillow at night and go to sleep without financial worries than it is to have ‘stuff’. Don’t buy what you don’t need or can’t afford.
3. Work hard, play hard. Live your life. Hard work can lead to financial security, but it also pays off in many other ways, including giving you the joy of accomplishment, which makes the ‘play’ time all the sweeter.
By telling them they better be prepared to hold down 80 hour a week jobs, so as to afford the sixty-percent-plus tax rate required to adequately fund the luxurious, government-run retirement resorts that my baby boomer generation will demand and receive, based on our sheer demographic size, combined with the fact that retired people vote in much higher numbers than any other age group. A perfect storm if you will.
Someday long after we're gone, future generations will finally figure out exactly why our country went to hell, and when it happened, and they'll all frequently visit cemeteries and deface any gravestones with birth years between 1946 and 1964. But we won't care by then.
Good advive
Began by teaching the Lord’s Prayer “give us this day our daily bread”; modelled what some would call a frugal life of no credit card debt; loans only for mortgage and vehicles (used, never new); and ALWAYS making the tithe the first payment of the month.
Great tagline
I am telling my kids not to plan to earn traditionally but to garden and use each other instead of earning aand spending taxable dollars
And to take care of me, of course.
I dont think that there is a better option
Can I come live in your basement? LOL!
Needless to say she is up more than I am percentage-wise.
Lurking’
This girl will take over the world in another few years.
I am preparing her for marriage.
Lurking’
Don’t have any, but I’m thinking of tying chains around legs of nieces/nephews and telling them that’s what debt feels like...stay away from it. I’ll also be sure to teach them it’s godly to support their aged aunt in the future rather than pull the plug.
I’d love to go take a gigantic dump on FDR’s grave myself.
I raised my gorgeous blonde/blue young lady on Rush and conservatism. She’s a junior at Ohio State studying to be a social worker (with a 3.6 GPA) but still not going anywhere to the ‘left’. Goes without saying she’s not very popular with her professors or fellow classmates. But she still believes. My sweetie is a trooper. God Bless her.
“she also quit gymnastics which she had been taking since she was four to enroll in Jeet Kune Do, Tae Kwon Do and stick fighting martial arts.”
I have a friend who has a black belt in Uechi Ryu and has a few years invested in Aikido as well.He said Aikido ,taught from an early age,is the way he would go.As soon as our 2year old son reaches seven I will enroll him in a non-profit school nearby.Check some out on youtube, it is a beautiful and deadly martial art.
good luck with the martial arts.
it is great for boys and girls and they will need it later in life.
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Currently home schooling my oldest is old enough for dual enrollment so is taking college classes at 13. They are both in Martial arts and are learning how to shoot on 4H/ BSA sponsored shooting sports team. I have also let each of them know that on their 18th birthday they will receive a modest mobile home with an owned lot that they may call home. I expect that by the time they turn 18 each will have enough credits for an associates degree and if they want to go further Florida has an excellent scholarship program that is lottery funded for state Universities of which there are many including one in commuting distance. Both are taking music lessons as well one on violin and one on mandolin if worse comes to worse they can hang out in the park and pass the hat. My son’s stated goals are a little strange he wants to perform minimal work to earn enough for utilities and food and play video games and watch TV the rest of his life.
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