Not how many kids listen to their parents. Well, this is not a new problem – 4000 years ago Socrates had this problem too. I am talking about investing / making education or career choices, making marriage choices…kids blame their parents for everything! I am not sure if you should ask or listen to you […]
I meet all kinds of kids – and it is worth seeing their attitude towards money and their parents…. Some kids think that their parents owe them a living! Some kids hate spending their parent’s money – even a farthing! This is not about their attitude, it is about their ability to communicate with […]
No this story is not about greed. There was a farmer who had a hen that laid golden eggs. The farmer was a bit of a miser. He looked at the hen and thought – all the expense is because of the front side – and all the income is because of the back side. […]
When I see today’s youngsters – I of course find them restless. Yes, young and restless you have heard…but why young and so called ‘riskless’ ? Well for those who took up a job in 2007/8 (means born in 1985 or later) markets have not been a great – at best it has been lukewarm. […]
This Children’s Day, I could have started saying “Pandit Nehru was born on 14 Nov. 1889 at Allahabad. He was fond of roses and children…hence this day is celebrated as Children’s day…!!” I did not do that simply because his family will over do it….even today and the bill will be paid by us… […]
Not sure how many of you are on facebook. One Ibnlive.com clip doing the rounds is an IAS topper saying how much his father sacrificed to make him an IAS. He talks of his father selling his land. He talks of not having a house to live, but still studying for his IAS. His father […]
So many parents can afford to send their kids abroad today, it is not funny! And most people would have had aspirations to study in Harvard, Wharton,….the Ivy League. Today they can sign cheques of US $ 150,000 without batting an eyelid when their kid says ‘dad I want to study abroad’… In the 1960s, […]