I don’t think there’s enough support for fathers and stay at home dads. Men also don’t share their issues and feelings as readily as women for some reason. As a result, I’d like to change this by sharing more fatherhood stories and raising awareness about what many fathers go through in silence. This post is […]
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There are many benefits of being short I’d like to discuss in this post. I firmly believe being tall is overrated. Unless you are a basketball player, volleyball player, wide receiver, or tennis player, there’s not much benefit to being tall. I’m 5’10”, the average height in America. If I played in the NBA, I’d
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The first day of preschool was tough. Not so much for our boy, but for my wife and me. My immediate thought was, so this is where creativity comes to die. My wife and I spent three hours a day with him for the first week to help with the transitioning process. During this time,
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There are two things politicians seem to want more than anything else: money and power. For the sake of money and power, we study like crazy, work like dogs, delay starting families, then abandon our children once we have them, all for these two things that really don’t make us much happier. How strange we
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If you want to start your marriage right, then following these wedding spending rules so you don’t end up broke and alone. Given roughly half of marriages eventually end in a divorce and wedding ceremonies last for at most 12 hours in America, it’s wise to spend as little as possible on a wedding just
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average cost of family health insurance offered by companies is now a whopping $20,576 a year, or $1,714.66 a month. Employers paid for 71% of that cost on average. Meanwhile, the average premium for single workers was $7,188 a year, or $599 a month. Employers covered 83% of
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If you have a baby or toddler or are planning to have a baby, this post is for you. I’ve been running an interesting, real-life, real-time experiment on how hard it is to get ahead if you have below-average money and little status. In 2017, we ended up applying to three preschools that accepted toddlers
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Do you want to retire early with kids? I’m sorry, but it is nearly an impossible task. As a father of two children now, I look back and feel like retiring early without kids was a walk in the park in comparison. Retiring early with kids is at least three times harder than retiring without
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The best time for parents to go back to work is dictated by nature. You don’t have to overthink things too much once you’ve run the financial numbers. Over the past two years, I’ve gotten to know another stay-at-home dad in the neighborhood. Bob has a boy who is also two years old. We try
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The last thing any couple should want to do when they start a marriage is get buried in debt and stress. Debt and financial stress can break relationships down. Instead of creating unnecessary anxieties, have a budget wedding and start your married life on the right foot! What’s the average wedding cost in the US
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