Very nice day to finish off the weekend. We started it nice and slow watching a couple of episodes of Foundation. We are almost mid second season.
Then our son came over and we had a really good weight lifting workout together in my garage gym while listening to old school song remixes on YouTube and chatting a little bit.
We listened to Sweet Dreams Are Made of... You're in The Army Now, Rasputin, some Modern Talking. Thomas Anders has a number of cool videos where he is in the music videos as himself now next to himself when Modern Talking was popular in the eighties when he was young generated by AI. Those are actually quite interesting.
Like this one for example:
After the workout my wife made an old soviet dish called USSR pasta. That is basically spaghetti mixed with eggs and topped with sugar.
I know, not very healthy lol. Then we followed it up with a home made chocolate banana milkshake. Sometimes you have to enjoy life's little pleasures, and the best time is right after working out so that your body can put it to good use and jump start muscle recovery.
We had a pretty good conversation at the table learned what is going on in his life and about his experience in the MBA program so far.
One thing that came up is that he doesn't have control over his money. He has his mom access his bank account and transfer money into a brokerage account and invest it for him.
It's good that she is helping him, but he should just ask her for advice and do the transactions himself. He has no interest in that, but what is even worse is that when I brought up that he should have full control over his money in case some disagreement comes up in the future. His response was that he just doesn't foresee it...
I can't convince him otherwise. I had plenty of my own experiences with my parents taking advantage of their access to my assets, but it doesn't help me convince him not to make the same mistakes.
We can't help our kids to learn from our mistakes, they have to learn from their own mistakes unfortunately.
What would you do in such situation?
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