Allie Beth Stuckey

You know, I got some good advice, and I'm thinking more about adult children right now, financially.

I got some good advice one time, and one of my mentors, I was talking about, my kids were entering the phase where they were getting ready to be married and buying homes and things like that, their kids starting to school.

and uh you know our oldest son we were only 21 years old when justin was born so we were very young so he you know he he's only 21 years younger than i am so i'm 65 and so he's 44 okay and so he's you know if if if if we wait until lisa and i pass away and you know who knows when that will be uh

then he's going to be pretty far up there before he would get any inheritance at all.

And his kids may already be out of college, who knows?

And so what this gentleman told me, he says, look, you need to help your kids when they need it the most, if you can afford to do it and that they're good stewards.

And so that's what we've done.

We've tried to help our kids along the way as they've needed, helped them buy their first house.

I don't think anything wrong with that.

We've helped, you know, help where we can with the private school tuition to go to a Christian school.

We help with that where they need it.

And that's what we try to do to help them during the time that they need it now.

they need to be good stewards of their money before that you would be willing to do that.

Because if they're going to take the money and just use it to go on a vacation or do something frivolous with it, then I wouldn't do that.

If you want to help the grandkids, but you don't really trust the kids, then you could give directly to the school if they're in a private school or put a 529 plan in place for their college tuition and what have you.

So that's what I would do.

Let's see.

What's your advice on newlyweds to do in their first year of marriage?

Well, I think in your first year of marriage is that you just need to.

And again, it's been a long time for us, right?