MzWings
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This sooooo true!
« on: Mar 13th, 2004, 5:34pm » |
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I "stole" this from another site. Pardon moi. My cuz sent it to me quite some time ago but I didn't save it. At this particular moment (to me, anyway), it means so much - so very much!
The Price of Children
I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost
of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the
rewards listed this way. It's nice, really nice!! Enjoy!!
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to18 and came up with $160,140 for a
middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition.
But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.24 a day!
Just over a dollar an hour.
Still, you might think the best financial advice
Is don't have children if you want to be "rich." Actually, it
is just the opposite!
What do you get for your $160,140
Naming rights: First, middle, and last! Glimpses of God every day.
Giggles under the covers every night.
More love than your heart can hold.
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm
cookies.
A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or
chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites,
building sand castles,and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140, you never have to grow up.
You get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play
hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stop believing in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures
of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney movies, and wishing on stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck.
You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off a bike,
removing a splinter, filling a wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team who never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
You get a front row seat to history to witness the first step, first word, first bra, first date, and first time
behind the wheel.
You get to be immortal.
You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren.
You get an education in psychology, nursing,
criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there
under God.
You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare
away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so . . . one day they will, like
you, love without counting the cost.
LOVE and ENJOY YOUR KIDS AND GRANDKIDS!
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