Here is the scenario I use in almost every consultation. You go out on a date night. The neighbor's sixteen-year-old is babysitting. At ten she calls and cannot reach you, because there has been an accident. At eleven, at twelve, her mother tells her to come home. Who does she call? Every room gives the same answer, and it is the wrong outcome for your child.
What I Said
From my September 10 Parents Edition workshop at the Cambria Hotel in Calabasas, lightly edited for readability.
What happens to you, your affairs, and your child while you're here but you're disabled or incompetent? It could be an illness, it could be an accident, it could be anything. There's an emergency. Who will step in for you? Who will take care of your affairs and take care of your kid? And what will reach them at what age, you can control, we discussed, when they get their inheritance.
So who raises them? As I told you this sad story, and I see these stories, thank God, not that often, because when something happens, usually parents, statistically, we plan for death and disability. Thank God death happens not that often. Disability is a more often event. So what happens in the first hours?
Who can pick up your kid from school, from daycare, from a babysitter? Usually I have the scenario of a babysitter. You know how couples sometimes go on a date night. So you go on a date night, you have a 16-year-old babysitter, a neighbor, babysitting your child, and you don't come home. At 10 they call you, they cannot reach you, 'cause there was an accident. It is 11, it is 12, their mother calls them and says, "Hey, you have to come home." Who do they call? Any ideas?
The full talk, written down: Who Picks Up Your Child From School if You Never Come Home?
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