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Fucker
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They are at the age where they are in school and typically when women return to work. Seems a little late, IMO.
Arative
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My kids loved this one
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Gavinmad
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The initial outrage is understandable but after that who is there to be angry at? Unless they ignored one of their children's need in a time of real crisis, I'd say alzheimers wipes the 'selfish jerk' slate clean. I certainly wouldn't want to waste lucid time clawing open old wounds.
chthonic-anemos
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If they were truly selfish they would have blown it all instead of having something to leave their kids.
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Tuco
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Like Gavin said, unless they truly ignored a kid in a time of real crisis, it's hard to be that judgemental.
Going further and making a bunch of assumptions that might be bullshit, if they are 85 years old they are a depression era generation. They optimized their life because they thought another depression was likely and chose to push their kids into total financial independence because if the time came to break into the apocalypse fund, they'd be ready.
Being a parent is hard because you only get once chance to make a choice in every situation, and the result is not intuitive. It could be that if your inlaws helped pay for college tuition, their kids would value it less and do poorly. It could be that if they helped pay for college tuition, one of your wife's siblings would've had a dramatically better career.
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sleevedraw
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Old 90s edutainment games like Math Blaster (either Jr. or Episode I depending on how far along they are with math) and the Super Solvers/Super Seekers series (Gizmos and Gadgets, Treasure Cove, Treasure MathStorm, Treasure Galaxy). The Solvers games are generally for 7+, Seekers for 5+.
A lot of them are streamable here.
Tuco
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We ended up getting the TickTalk4 TickTalk 4
It's OK. As a device it's great and has worked very well so far. It has a huge limitation though since it doesn't have true SMS compatibility. Anyone who texts with my son has to have their dumbass app, which severely limits the utility of the device for him to independently communicate with people. The watch's major competitor, the Gizmo 3, has the same limitation.
I was hoping he could get this thing and we could coerce his friend's parents to get something similar so he could reach out to his people and go hang out independently, but it looks like nothing on the market supports that. Some people really like the apple smartwatch, but I've literally never bought an apple device and haven't looked into buying that yet. I don't know how much Apple koolaid I need to drink just so my kid can text "can u play rn" to his buddy.
moonarchia
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The watch requires an iphone, so be wary there. The up side is that it syncs with pretty much everything, including messages/sms.
Tuco
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How feasible is it to split the ownership such that my kid can use the watch and I don't risk him being able to access any sensitive info (Ex: my emails, my dick pics, random websites he googles, etc) , and my phone doesn't get blown up when he's spamming his buddies?
In addition to what everyone else said, it's worth keeping in mind the nature of investements. House prices have tripled in the last five years, the markets have basically doubled in the last 10 and quintupled in the last 20. They could very easily not have had what feels like a significant amount of money until fairly recently.
Either way, Alzheimer's destroys minds and whoever they are now is not the people they were. There's no point in resentment.
Gavinmad
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They still have time to blow it all, do you know how much assisted living residency costs a year for an alzheimers patient? I would guess there's probably various ways to save money due to them being a couple (i.e. a two person room is technically private for them), but when Dirk said they're set for life it was probably on the assumption that they won't make to 90.
Hateyou
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Set up Apple Watch for a family member - Apple Support
Family Setup lets family members who don't have their own iPhone enjoy the features and benefits of an Apple Watch.
Falstaff
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Do any of you guys give your kids a credit/debit card? My daughter turned 10 in July this summer and her and all her friends started riding bikes all over town and often end up at the local ice cream/boba place. Every time she asks me for money I never have cash on me, so instead was thinking about something like this I can get for her and transfer money when she does chores would be a win/win.
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OU Ariakas
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You can search for "reloadable debit card for kids" if you want that, but think about maybe getting actual cash for her to use. It is so much easier to teach them the value of a dollar when they have to count it out and give it to you themselves.
Arative
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We got our kids greenlight, so we can set up chores for them and they can earn money. It comes with a debit card. It has a monthly fee though for the parents.
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