Fatherhood

An hourly allowance teaches a child to fill the hour. A job with a price and a standard teaches him to finish early and keep the difference.

Franklin scored himself in a notebook nobody else read. The instrument a child needs is not a parent watching.

Sometime around his fourteenth year, George Washington sat down and copied one hundred and ten rules of conduct into a school notebook by hand. He did not write them.

The most powerful man in the known world opened his private journal with a list of people he was grateful to.

Most parents teach their kids about money. Fewer teach them about ownership. The two get treated as the same lesson and they’re not even close.

There’s a version of “building a business for your kids” that means leaving them money. That’s the shallow version.