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[dondons69]

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I was given a fantastic thing the other day it's american but so true i'll go dig it out!

[dondons69]

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The Price of Children

The US government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle-income family.
That doesn't even touch college fees. 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!
* 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 sandcastles, 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 that 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 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 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.

[Oggy]

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Thats so kool.....

[David]

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Now be honest, how can put a price on all of that?

Great post Dons

[Oggy]

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You can't, like a parents love, a dad, or a mom, different to a mother or father i think, a mom and dad are for life.....