When I was growing up it was impressed on me that college was the key, perhaps the only one, to any sort of professional or financial success. Neither of my parents attained a four-year degree, so it’s possible that their pressure, loving as it was, could have been because they perceived that they came up […]
I am a worrier. I’ve always been that way. So it doesn’t take too much brainpower to imagine how nervous I was as we made it to the home stretch. For me, that was the two-month mark. At that point we still, among other things had not decided what we were going to do for
I take sleeping seriously. I’d always had problems staying asleep while growing up, and it wasn’t until later in my teenage years that I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. After I was diagnosed I went through years of devices, doctor appointments, and finally, surgery, to address the issue. That was a whole lot of
When I was growing up in the 1990s and 2000s, I never heard much about the minimum wage. That’s because its usefulness was almost entirely confined to people in the 16-22 age bracket. You know, the people dipping their toes into the workforce for the first time. The majority of these people generally worked at
If you’re an active man who has played sports at any part of your life, you know the sensation of your testicles being hit by any number of objects or people. It’s inevitable and the cups have almost no impact. And we all at one point had (or still may have) the emotional maturity that
I am a private person. I don’t like showing emotions. Right or wrong, I think it exudes weakness. Also, I wouldn’t say I like talking about my problems. Will I do it if my wife pokes and prods enough? Sure. But, for the most part, I want to work on whatever is in my head
I’ll be honest- the title of this article is deceiving. But it got you to click on it, right? My thoughts on daycare and handing your child’s brain development off to strangers for more than 40 hours per week are well-known to regular readers of this site (for those who aren’t, I wouldn’t say I like it).
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’
