I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It's nice, Really nice!©JOKEDEMO.COM
The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition.©JOKEDEMO.COM
But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896 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.©JOKEDEMO.COM
Still, you might think the best financial advice says don't have children if you want to be "rich." It is just the opposite.©JOKEDEMO.COM
What do your get for your $160,140?©JOKEDEMO.COM
Naming rights, --- First, middle, and last!©JOKEDEMO.COM
Glimpses of God everyday.©JOKEDEMO.COM
Giggles under the covers every night.©JOKEDEMO.COM
More love than your heart can hold.©JOKEDEMO.COM
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.©JOKEDEMO.COM
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.©JOKEDEMO.COM
A hand to hold, usually covered with jam.©JOKEDEMO.COM
A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sand castles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.©JOKEDEMO.COM
Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.©JOKEDEMO.COM
For $160,140, you never have to grow up.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stop believing in Santa Claus.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney Land, and wishing on Stars.©JOKEDEMO.COM
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.©JOKEDEMO.COM
For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You get to be a hero just for retrieving a frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off the 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.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You get a front row seat to history to witness the first step, first word, first bra, first date, and first time behind the wheel. You get to be immortal.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.©JOKEDEMO.COM
In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there with God.©JOKEDEMO.COM
You have all the power to heal a booboo, 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.©JOKEDEMO.COM
ENJOY YOUR KIDS, GRANDKIDS, NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
