How to Start Saving for Your Child's College Education
by Jamie Letcher, CRPC, Financial Adviser, CUNA Brokerage Services
Mar 11, 2019
2 minutes
Congratulations! You're a new parent! You probably have a lot on your mind with all of the immediate challenges and rewards that come with this "job," and you may not feel prepared to think 18 years into the future. However, it behooves all parents, first-time or otherwise, to start planning for their child's college education from Day 1, even if it produces a lot of anxiety or seems like something you can put off for a bit.
As a financial adviser for 13 years, and a parent for 22, I have both seen and experienced the distress. I have said to many a client: "Kids -- they suck the financial soul right out of us, but it's all worth it!"
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