PLAN AND INVEST FOR YOUR OLD AGE, DON’T PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN YOUR CHILDREN AND WIFE.

Men, Never forget about yourself, your well-being, and investing in yourself just before your old age when building a family.

I understand the point about trying to be the best dad in the world for your children and wife, but be wise enough to know that even your blood is also hu; putting all your trust in them could cost you a lot when their humanity catches up with them. Investing in your future is important.

What do I mean??

My emphasis is based on the evil I have seen in the world, and this evil is centralized on how easily children tend to forget their father[man] in his old age, unlike their mother. Invest in your old age, it’s crucial.

Fathers who did everything possible to live their lives for them so they could end up becoming somebody in life, and they paid him back with abandonment in his old age.

I have an uncle who once lived his life for his children and refused to build his house so his children could go to the best schools and become anything they wanted.

A very hard-working man, his wife was practically doing nothing save for the yam business he opened for her.

This man suffered day and night for his children, forgot about himself, and didn’t make any savings or investments as a retirement plan because he wanted to give his children a better life; my mum warned him about his obsession with his kids but he refused, which nearly created an issue between them.

Currently, The man is in the village farming, abandoned by the same children and wife he suffered for in his old age.

All his children are now graduates doing at least well to reciprocate their father’s love, but instead, they abandoned him. Investing is ultimately a must for securing your old age.

The same children that abandoned their father took their mother away and rented.

The man is suffering now.

I have a lot of stories about that but I wouldn’t want to bore you with them.

I believe this will teach you a lesson.

When raising your kids, don’t go to the extreme, plan for yourself as much as you plan for them.

Share the resources into two: one for your savings, making a retirement or old age plan for yourself, and one for them. Investing in your future ensures your old age is secure.

For example, instead of sending your children to a school where you will spend almost 90 of your earnings in life, find a school that can divide your earnings by 60- 10 or 15 to 25-30.

60 for the children’s wellbeing.

10 for Your retirement savings.

25-30 for anything else.

Draft out plans like this and put yourself in it. Be strategic, children are fond of abandoning their dad for nothing significant.

Trust me on this, it’s a mental construct from the beginning; children are more attached to their mothers because the face of the home and the father is the pillar and root, often the man underground. Don’t forget to invest in your old age along the way.

It’s a harsh reality, and we must learn to devise a strategy to survive this bias.

Children easily downplay the role of fatherhood in the family it’s only when they become one that they will now understand the plight of fatherhood.

The only time they come to appreciate the place of fatherhood is when they become parents or fathers themselves, and by that time, you would have been dead.

Loyalty is not consistent just as change must happen.

Don’t forget you exist all because you are training a child.

As I’m talking to you, my mum is setting up her retirement plan at the expense of something crucial in her children’s lives.

She’s right and wise; I understand her, and I’m not against her. She believes in investing for her old age.

If a woman can be this logical, why not you? She trusts us to be human, and that’s why she’s doing what she’s doing.

Make sure you always have up to plan E in your archive of wisdom, you never know.