– 4:10 pm
You were your usual self when I fed you early this morning, chatting, kicking and chewing off your hand. I recorded a minute or so of it and decided to play it back to you. You looked stunned, dazed and swallowed whole by what you were watching. I haven’t seen you this still and captivated.
At around 9:30 ish, your mother and I took you in for your second round of vaccines. You had the first dose last month and this is meant to be more of the same. Almost identically to last time, you’ve been fine all day. However, we’ve both struggled to get you to settle for more than five minutes within the last hour. I managed to calm you down to sleep for a bit.
Prior to that, you’d wake up intermittently in hysterics. And I’d have to shshshs you back to sleep while holding your hand. Your cough and cold are a lot better but not gone. That probably isn’t helping either. I feel terrible for you. Liza was mighty close to tears at the hospital. I’m sure she’s cried at some point since we got back. It was inked all over her face.
By the way, we’ve stopped giving you Calcough. It works no doubt but it’s also giving you an allergic reaction. There’s a red rash on your face and eczema on both your sleeves. Luckily, treating the latter doesn’t require medication or something we don’t already have. Just hygiene and vaseline.
Calcough probably has an additive in it, an ingredient that starts with E… E211 in this case. Liza is much the same. If she touches anything with flavours and additives, the rash is almost immediate. And she didn’t eat these types of foods during her pregnancy. So it’s completely foreign to your system. we tend to stay away from “E-stuffs” as we call them.
I was reading this post on Reddit and found a thought-provoking comment. OP was talking about the rising cost of living in London and how expensive private education is for anyone trying to give their child a head start. This reply in the comments got me thinking…
Honestly, if you have the means, your kid will probably be better off if, instead of paying the private school fees, you just invest 27k for him (9k of this into a junior ISA) for 18 years.
It will be very, very hard for the returns on a private school education (which I guess would be the average salary difference between private school university grads and state school university grads) to beat the investment returns on such a large figure over such a length of time.
Especially seeing as your kid would get the investment pot upfront (meaning it could keep growing across its maximum value) from their early 20s or whenever you stop contributing. Whilst the private school “returns” would still have to be earnt incrementally over a career (which could go wrong for any number of reasons).
I would rather have been a millionaire by my late 20s than have gone to a nicer school and have a bit of a better job.
I called your mother to discuss the comment and get her opinion. My parents did what they could to ready me for life. I didn’t get a bag of money at 18 but I got a mindset I could will and apply. I am a big fan of this Redditor’s line of thought and we’ll do whatever we can to give you a good base to spring from.