The Anthony Reeves Experience

R.P.O.V. Counter point to “Talking to your parents about assets, part 2:  Talking about assets”   One of the hard parts about talking to your parents about assets is the finality of the discussion.   The realization that you are talking about leaving things behind when they are gone.   We all know that we will eventually leave this world.   However, when having the conversation about leaving this world can make a lot of people feel very uncomfortable.     Which brings me to the uncomfortable conversation about what your parents have.    If your parents have accumulated a lot of things over their lifetime, taking the time to figure out what they have can be overwhelming to your parents.    It is not that they do not want to itemize everything.  It is just that it forces them to have to stop, take a moment, and truly think about everything they own or are in possession. ...

  The Debate over who can tell who what to do R.P.O.V. Counter point to “Telling your parents what to do”   Two problems tend to present themselves when you find yourself in the position of having to tell your parents what to do: 1)       They may only do the portions THEY want to do 2)       They don’t think YOU should be telling them anything   Therein lies the debate.   The first part lies in the difficulty in telling anyone what to do who have historically told you what to do.  If you grew up in a household where you were raised to respect your parents, having tell your parents to do anything can be a nightmare.    You are already conditioned to respect them so you may feel like telling them to do something is disrespectful.  In addition, they also feel that you are not in the position to tell them what to do since you are their child.  So, when faced with this rea...