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@TKopelman Exactly. Done beats perfect, especially in week one.

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@ducksays Fair. Oxygen mask first is right. My dad's point was just that he wished he'd started the kids' fund earlier.

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@TeejCapital Terrifying and the best week of my life. Day 8 now, still figuring it out one feed at a time.

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@shaneparrish @RyanSerhant "Start now... Wish I had started earlier." My dad wrote that about money, but it's really about time. Eight days into fatherhood, I'm not handing those minutes away.

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@PSInvestor "Your role becomes support for your wife." One of my dad's lessons. Eight days in, I'm learning the market stays at work. Home gets the full version of me.

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@mimikmorgan "As soon as you see your child for the first time it is life changing." My dad wrote that. Reading this, I'm already picturing our first table like yours.

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@morganhousel 102 lessons my dad wrote me, and the money one is just: start early, $200 a month. Eight days into fatherhood, boring money is what lets me worry less.

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@InvestingAddict 27 with $100k from the boring stuff. Same playbook for my newborn: account opened week one, $200 a month, and 18+ years of runway. Not sexy. Works.

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@HoneyTooRaw "There is no correct book on how to raise a child." My dad wrote that. But if there were, a chapter on apologizing first would be in it. Starting that one early.

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@BrianFeroldi $200 a month. That's what my dad wrote I should put away for my kid, then: "Wish I had started earlier." We opened our newborn's account in week one. The queue can wait.

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@thejustinwelsh "Family is most important. Make sure you live it." My dad's line. I work in real estate investing, and the freedom I'm chasing now is more time home with my wife and our newborn.

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@SahilBloom 8 days into fatherhood, every tiny moment feels huge. Lesson 1 from my dad: seeing your child the first time is life changing. Enthusiasm stops being a choice.

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@Codie_Sanchez 102 lessons from my dad, and the toy one nails this: "You're buying them for your ego." Eight days into fatherhood, I'm running every goal through that filter.

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He started late and regretted it. Ours is one week old and the account's already open.

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Lesson 12: "Start now and put $200 a month into a fund for your child… Wish I had started earlier."

$200/mo for 18 yrs = $43,200 in
7% → ~$86k
10% → ~$120k

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Lesson 10: "There is no correct book on how to raise a child. Throw them all away."

Eight days in. Some of the books help, some are nonsense, and the baby hasn't read any of them.

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@BoomerDivvies Truth!

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@InvestingAddict 401k first, then $110 into VOO. Paycheck order is the discipline. Same sequence here with a newborn and my wife in the house.

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@TomolaGroup Small amounts make you an investor. Watching money videos for years is the trap. First deposit on a week-old account. Tiny. Real.

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@CarsonTalkMoney Maxing Roth so your kids don't have to carry you later is the bare minimum. Newborn account this month. Same logic, earlier clock.