HeyJaredMy Family Strategist
This podcast is where financial strategy meets the chaos of parenting. Many of us weren't taught personal finance from our own parents, yet we’re expected to navigate a complex, costly world while raising the next generation.
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The Daycare Audit: 10 Qs Most Parents Never Think to Ask (opens the original)
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The gap between the best and the worst daycare centre within a few streets of your house is enormous, and almost none of it is visible on a tour. I spent eight years auditing businesses, then I had the real experience of being a parent navigating the broken daycare system. So now I audit daycares to correct this and help parents make more informed choices. With the benefit of hindsight and the knowledge I’ve accumulated in business, these are the ten questions I ask a daycare. Episode Chapters:
Daycares: The Business of Children (opens the original)
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Everything that makes a daycare better for your child — more educators, more experienced educators, better food, more space — is a cost. And as a society, we have decided to hand over the care of our youngest children to businesses that profit by spending less on them. I spent 8 years as an auditor and then I became a parent. Now I audit daycares. Here’s what I found and why I’m horrified (including the two-minute check every parent should be doing).
The 5 Qs I Ask Before Any Big Family Decision (opens the original)
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At work I would never sign off on a major decision without analysis. But at home, I paid $5,000 in private school fees to hold a high school placement for my one-year-old, on nothing but social pressure. Our biggest family decisions get the least rigour. Here are the five questions I now use instead.
Is Parenting Harder Than a Generation Ago? (opens the original)
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Why do I struggle with one child while my parents and in-laws had four kids and made it look easy? I looked at the data to figure out if it really is harder today or if it just feels that way. I ran the Australian numbers on housing, childcare, and how much we're actually parenting. The answer is not what I expected.
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