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I have been encouraging my children to earn less and do for themselves more. To stick together and work with each other so they will not have to earn as much.
1 posted on 09/19/2008 5:53:13 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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What are you doing at home to prepare your children for the future?

Teaching God's Word and making sure that it is understood and practiced.

2 posted on 09/19/2008 5:55:11 PM PDT by politicket (Palin-tology: (n) - The science of kicking Barack Obambi's butt!)
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Mine are already grown, out on their own, working adults.

I didn’t quit though, I work with the Boy Scouts helping another generation “Be Prepared.”


3 posted on 09/19/2008 5:55:41 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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Encouraging him to have faith in God, himself, and to also look for the thread of good. Also, I think it’s critically important to make sure your child or children know they are loved. In that I believe comes a strength that will guide them through whatever hardships life serves up.


4 posted on 09/19/2008 5:57:26 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Encourage them to defeat Liberals with all their being.


7 posted on 09/19/2008 5:59:41 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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I have kids?


8 posted on 09/19/2008 5:59:47 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (If I wanted a Chicago politician as my President, I'd vote for Richard Daley)
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By teaching them the sored facts of how a corrupt money system works...http://www.investmentrarities.com/09-02-08.html just one example of many
10 posted on 09/19/2008 5:59:53 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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By forcing them to listen to Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All.”


12 posted on 09/19/2008 6:00:52 PM PDT by Clemenza (PRIVATIZE FANNIE AND FREDDIE! NO MORE BAILOUTS!)
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Teaching them shooting and other survival skills.


13 posted on 09/19/2008 6:01:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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They all know how to field strip, clean, assemble, check, and then fire a .22 Marlin, a Winchester 30.06, a Star .45 and a Mossberg 500 .12 ga.


14 posted on 09/19/2008 6:01:31 PM PDT by PeterFinn (NObama in NOvember.)
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Mine are grown and on their own. If I had young ones though, I would have them in private schools. I wouldn’t send my neighbors kids to public school. In California, 30% don’t graduate from High School. In some cities in California, only 30% do graduate.


15 posted on 09/19/2008 6:01:32 PM PDT by RC2
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What are you doing at home to prepare your children for the future?

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.

25 posted on 09/19/2008 6:11:27 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (If my kids make a mistake in the voting booth, I don't want them punished with a community organizer)
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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.


27 posted on 09/19/2008 6:12:23 PM PDT by lightman (Sarah Palin: A REAL woman, not an empty pantsuit!)
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Deciding what non socialist country to immigrate to would be a good place to start.
29 posted on 09/19/2008 6:15:17 PM PDT by org.whodat (Republicans should support the SAM Walton business model, and then drill???)
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after a discussion two years ago, my then 10 year old daughter took out one-half of her savings and bought $1200.00 worth of silver American Eagles. This year my now twelve year old informed that she had pulled the rest of her savings and bought more silver Eagles.

Needless to say she is up more than I am percentage-wise.

Lurking’

32 posted on 09/19/2008 6:26:47 PM PDT by LurkingSince'98 (Catholics=John 6:53-58 Everyone else=John 6:60-66)
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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.


35 posted on 09/19/2008 6:34:44 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray every day for McCains, Palins and the USA...and the rest of us, too.)
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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.


37 posted on 09/19/2008 6:41:23 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" white guy voting McCain/Palin)
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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.


40 posted on 09/19/2008 6:53:37 PM PDT by scottteng (What ever happened to principles and self reliance?)
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I made sure they read EARTH ABIDES by Stewart.


41 posted on 09/19/2008 6:55:26 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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My son has a PhD in physics.

I told him to make as much money as possible, figure out how to hide it from the government and then move to Australia to avoid the civil war coming to the US.

44 posted on 09/19/2008 7:21:16 PM PDT by blam
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The new global economy is going to require personal responsibility for your own finances, not just being a good or hard worker.

Do not let someone else manage your money.

yitbos

52 posted on 09/19/2008 9:17:19 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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