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I guess “better” all depends where you’re coming from. The last thing I’d wish on my kids is some “top” law school and a status seeking law career.

When I think of a better life for my kids, I think of them having their head in a certain place.

Like for instance on our family trip, I was starting to lose it at the end of our trip in in the taxi ride when the driver got a little lost. All my kids were perfectly calm after a long trip. My oldest talked me down and through my little meltdown.

“Just go limp, pa. It’s ok”.

Hope he can be there to help me die…he was awesome…got me right off the ledge…

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Idler

Link to the idler academy. I think they are accepting apps. Accordion studies. Gardening. Other impt. Stuff.

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Those 2 immigrants both probably have good brains and recognized it in each other.

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5. Get the little bastid into Harvard Yale or stanford, or just cut em loose and try another embryo.

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4. Teach them how to control themselves

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3. Stimulate the little guy.

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2. Breastfeed

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So let’s start at the beginning.

First if you want to have a successful kid, best to mate with a very intelligent very well adjusted person.

In fact if you screw up at this stage it might all be over anyway.

Some lawyers say the trial is pretty much already decided in jury selection…before the case even begins. Same principle may apply to success for your issue.

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[quote=AN]flu, I totally agree. Guys like Gates, Jobs, Ellison, etc. are in the 0.005%. But then you have to also keep in mind that only 5% of American house hold make >$180k. As you said, what if your kids are just average or above average? Or more likely, what if your kids are brilliant but also have a huge heart and want to go into profession with very little chance of making big bucks. Would a UPenn nursing degree get you to make a lot more than a SDSU RN degree? Or what if your kid is great at teaching children and want to teach kids in the inner city because he/she want to make a real difference? Would an Ivy education make that big of a difference? We all have to keep in mind that most careers out there don’t make very much. If your kid want to be a doctor and joining doctor without border to help the poor. Would an Ivy MD matter? Wouldn’t having a few hundred grand to help them financially throughout their lives while they help the poor better than an Ivy degree?[/quote]

This is probably easier if you have one kid, to just spend and hope.

but in any event resources must be allocated as efficiently as possible.

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Let’s step back a moment.

If you were to list the upbringing and training of a kid mist likely to survive in the war of modern society what would you include in the raiding, teaching credent I a living and financing?

Would the answer be different if the g is known were to maximize his life satisfaction?

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Perhaps it’s not a war.

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When the solution is spend a lot more money for status I am suspicious.

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Maybe the futures calls for guerrilas.

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Perhaps it’s a massive proxy battle and kids are just the arenas where we play out our own anxieties.

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Perhaps parents are fighting the wars of the past with weapons of the past.

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