We definitely need to focus on building wealth, but we also gotta plan for financial stability so our kids can inherit assets instead of just debts. It’s super important to prioritize financial planning and to get our children involved in strategies that can lead them to financial freedom and being debt-free.
Debts can really mess with someone’s life, affecting their overall well-being and even leading to bankruptcy or mental health issues. So, it’s crucial for our kids to grasp this early on. Here are some key points that could help them live a life without debts:
1. Making choices: This is a big deal. When you know how to make solid decisions, you can really impact your life and surroundings.
2. Learning about finances: It’s important to seek out financial education from mentors or trusted people that can guide you to live debt-free.
3. Planning: This is a major step that sets the tone for success. Think of it as budgeting it helps you make clearer choices. So, set a budget and stick to it for better growth.
4. Saving and investing: Everyone should really get into this. It's another key area that needs attention.
Teach your kids to inherit wealth, not debts
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byte_orbitFull Member
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#2Nov 1, 2023, 04:54 AM
Only the worst and the dumbest people make their children inherit any kind of debts. It is several magnitudes worse than not giving them anything at all. This is not really a discussion, this is common sense.
Fun little theory you got from an AI. Still reality paints a completely different picture. There is probably not more than a couple thousand people in the whole world who do all of these things. People who are not regularly saving and investing are not people who are doing 1,2,3 anyway. Most people do not have any investments at all except some automated investment stuff that is either government mandated or that their bank up-sold them through some sales tricks. These do not count obviously.
Of course Nigerian local board poster and merited by who other than Mia Chloe. Can you guys make your farming a bit less obvious?
SwiftMinerSenior Member
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#3Nov 1, 2023, 09:33 AM
Can you further buttress why you mentioned me here ? I'd like a proper explanation.
We are to take and make ourselves meaningful. If we are to pass inheritance to our children which will succeed us in the future, many times most people really don't have the future at mind that is why they live life without any sense of purpose and direction. We should know that our unborn generation will grow up one day and ask critical questions and how you live your life will determine what kind of impression which they will have towards you.
Making the right financial decisions is key to securing a better financial future. Most times people don't give much attention to how they spend their money. Money should be spent in such a way that will bring in money, this is were the role of investment comes in. Investing your funds is one thing parents should make so that, the future of their children will be much more better and comfortable is making good use of their finances and that will be only guaranteed via investment.
Handing over debts to your children is giving them a rough start to wealth creation. It's fault on the party if any parents that their wards starts life by paying their debts. You're responsible for the decisions you make as an individual and worst case scenario be sure it's to your own detriment only, it is only best to leave assets and riches for your next generation so it becomes the stepping stone for their success( for sensible children).
Savings direct make someone very rich but investment does. It's past the time people safe more to secure the future, now investment is key and if you check the richest men, none of them made their fortune through savings, they're all investors and innovators so most focus should be tilted towards investments.
diamond_atlasSenior Member
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#6Nov 3, 2023, 10:38 AM
Invest your money for your children education that is helpful and vital for their individual growth from education to career in the future. If you can have further money for investment in bitcoin and give your children inheritance, it's good but it is not mandatory. Education for them is key and most important for your children. If they are well educated, they will be able to find good jobs, receive good salary and can use it for purchasing bitcoin by themselves.
If you only give them bitcoin, but they can not work by lack of education, they will sell your bitcoins in the future, and even live in poor conditions after selling their inherited bitcoins.
5h4rd_2015Full Member
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#7Nov 5, 2023, 09:27 AM
I agree, the text is very similar to the AI's, but the OP carefully edited it, although the idea is rather empty to me. What debts are we talking about? Children are not responsible for all the sins and debts of their parents. All the other points can be stated simply: it is the parents' responsibility to provide their children with a proper upbringing, an understanding of the importance of education, and the education itself. The fact that children study somewhere, wasting their time, and subsequently become a burden on their parents, only indicates that the latter did not explain to them the need for this time to acquire knowledge. Discussions about debts will be irrelevant when parents understand that they will not take out a loan at all if they have no plans to repay it. All other problems should be solely the responsibility of those who owe money, not the children, although this may depend on the country of residence.
Being in a financial crises with an accumulated debt is the worst disease that killings an individual very quick and silently.poor financial management and planning can lead to such trend.its pertinent one adopts some measures such as prudent spendings and number of children one can comfortably cater for.This will go along way to curtail unnecessary and unplanned spendings which could stretch one into bankruptcy.
A conscious father will know what his children needs in this current dispensation is the keys to the wallet of the inheritance left for them and not any other form of money or asset, because this will make them more independent, also, they needed it than any other, not that we leave for them settlement debts to pay after us, this will be the worst form as parents to leave behind us, because the children deserves more.
Education is very important for the kids to excel in future life. When I was a kid there was no Bitcoin but since my father has given me education and that has helped me in understanding every new emerging technology like devops, Bitcoin, IoT etc. You are quite right that if we deny our kids from quality education then they will just sell Bitcoins they inherit. It's good to teach your kids what Bitcoin is and how to make profit in it by holding it for long time. If your kids develop such skills at very early age then this will help them in future life, just giving them Bitcoins won't help them in long run.
greg.satoshiMember
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#11Nov 8, 2023, 03:12 AM
Fortunately many people don't want to leave debt for their children but it became inevitable for them, there are too many examples in my own country where hardworking men works for responsibility sake and eventually life hit back harder and every further solutions leads into debt one after the other, for I am only a human, who am I to say that I know what will happen in the future? All I gotta do is hope for the best and keep climbing harder, many men think they are beyond falling but history have shown the opposite, may the unexpected bad ending never befall me and my family, humans hopes and heaven makes the decisions.
Lack of financial management and proper plan can lead to debt which is the main reason why a father take proper responsibility for the welfare of his children and send them to school in order for them to be educated. They can also learn a skill so that they can be able to have good jobs and take care of you in return at old age. Debits should be avoided. When you invest, you will definitely make them proud.
I totally agree with you, the truth remains that the debt a man can free himself and it's family is two sided either giving them sound education that can allow them make good decisions or give them better skills that can put better food on their table or acquired a better assets that will make the children not suffering while taking Care of him at Old age all of this broiled down as a result of good financial planning, to achieve this planning many not need much but required articulating and focusing the future because many parents even hard what it takes to have good plan for themselves financially and for the children but failed in the planing, the story of the man who sold his property and invested in BTC was a man who had futurists planning such an investment for seen the future as such asset can can position it's family to a better living compare how some spend their wealth on liability with planing in future.
First, I think this topic is better fit on the economics board, but think moderators knows better.
Patenting responsibility comprises of all of these factors that has been mentioned, I know that some parents can be careless in the upbringing of there kids but yet we can not take out the fact the all of these are the necessary roles that parents are supposed to play in the development and upbringing of their offsprings. In the aspect of wealth inherent, many parents are not able to acquire so much wealth to transfer to their kids but at least training the kids in the right way will also make them to put a relentless efforts into achieving what their parents could not.
Exactly, but some family do have problems even before the father left them, and the problems are usually financially because we cant always control these children as they both have different interests in mind; therefore, I think proper management is needed by the father before he depart so that he will not leave them with problem and crises as family.
I feel like having separate wallets for the children is also important, as well as crypto education because some parents do die and their Bitcoin is gone because they kept their seed phrase for themselves and didnt share with their children or any family relative.
Child crypto education is needed especially the basic knowledge so that if you keep Bitcoin for them, they can be able to access your wallet.
humblerocketMember
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#16Nov 8, 2023, 09:47 PM
No parent wants their child to be burdened with debt. All parents want their children to be happy in the future, that's why they always work hard. However, if you look a little, you will see that our current population has much less opportunities than that, and many people get into debt while trying to raise their children properly. In many cases, they cannot pay off that debt completely, and later that debt falls on their children. They do not do this intentionally, you can call them victims of circumstances. Therefore, all parents should educate and raise their children to be well-educated and skilled so that they do not fall into danger in the future or if they are victims of any adverse situation, they can come out of it properly.
No doubt that it's the responsibility of every parent to carter and bring up their children in a way they won't be nuisances in the society.Many parents have undergone financial mistakes and it should be an eyeopener to the children and not a burden to them.Growing up,I've seen many cases where parents pass away,leaving their children with debt,I think that's the idea the OP is sharing but in my own thought this topic belong to economic board.Let's pave way for our children and not be a burden to them financially.
unfortunately not all parents have thought about enough their childrens futures its really sad because they clearly did not think of family planning all that well so their kids are the ones who end up suffering
Don't get me wrong but whereas in a situation regarding making a huge mistake I still stand to be corrected, but nevertheless most parents take up the responsibility of their children by making sure they never lack anything and that alone doesn't fortify the fact that they ought to be financially stable. Due to the fact that most parents do everything for their children the young ones find it difficult to be independent and face whatever challenges and hence most of them ain't properly guided and are pushed to making certain decisions that may hinder them which can results in debts.
But then giving them proper knowledge about everything and guiding them would help in the long run, so all I'm saying is since they ain't in full custody of their parents most of them become indebted to things. Eg gambling from a tender age with no prior advice can result to alot we know about including being in debt probably trying to keep up the activities.
Leaving unpaid debts for your kids is the most cruel thing to do to them and I would never forgive my parents if they did that to me because it can be very frustrating bearing the burden of debts, this is one of the reasons why I have Bitcoin investment, I'm very much concerned about the future of my kids and I'm doing the best I can to secure a better future for them through Bitcoin investment and other physical investments that I can lay my hands on. My parents are good people and they gave us a good life but they didn't have the opportunity to know about Bitcoin to secure a luxury lifestyle for us but now that I know about Bitcoin I will make sure to do for my kids what my parents didn't do for me.