To all of the fathers out there who wake up every day with the goal of raising independent, hardworking and financially literate children, cheers to you. After having a nice lunch with my Dad and his granddaughter yesterday, I will be spending today with my wife and daughter at Mass, fishing, watching the final round […]
Unlike many government tax schemes that only seem to help poor people who refuse to work, I am a strong proponent of the federal Child Tax Credit. Created in 1997, the credit is essentially a tax break for parents who have and care for children under the age of 18. The credit is currently worth
Well before we celebrated by daughter’s first birthday three months ago, a singular thought has crept in and out of my brain—time goes too fast while raising kids. It’s a reason I am always befuddled when I hear my friends and family who have relatively high-paying jobs talk about the things their child did at
I’ve always been dumbfounded by how little financial knowledge the majority of Americans seem to have. Considering money is the determining factor in most of the decisions we as Americans make on a yearly, monthly, daily and even hourly basis, you have to to wonder why so few of us actually know anything about it.
Babies are stupid. Toddlers are stupid. Children are stupid. And, from experience, I can tell you that teenagers are the most stupid. Some aspects of their stupidity are almost entirely due to biology. But I’d argue that most of it has to do with general sh*tty parenting. Humor my ‘old man yelling at a cloud’
Pride month, at least the way it is currently celebrated, is shameful. It’s weird. It salutes an entire class of people for no other reason than their sexual and/or gender preference. It makes the country look like a joke. Instead of celebrating this weird movement that focuses on an extremely small subset of the American
Not breaking news: Raising a baby is expensive. How expensive? Well, I keep a very meticulous personal budget each month. So I went back to look over how we spent our money on baby-related expenses for the first six months of my daughter’s life. While your situation certainly won’t be identical to mine, I wanted
When your wife is pregnant you will receive advice from nearly everyone on just about every topic than can have even the loosest possible tie to pregnancy and/or parenting. A good amount of it will either directly contradict how you feel or be a repeat of that same advice. But occasionally a memorable kernel of
There is no human being more vulnerable than a newborn baby. And outside of a newborn baby, there is nothing more vulnerable than smaller children—besides maybe the parents of smaller children Leave The Selfishness At The Door Before we had even conceived our first child, my thought process was very clear—I’m not having a child
Unfortunately, the perception of men as weak, inattentive and unaccountable is not just restricted to the writing room at Hollywood studios. Men, especially since the turn of the century, have rapidly shirked our role and responsibility as leaders both in and out of the home. That is for a variety of reasons, but I have no intention of making up excuses for these cowards.
