Smart Dad Checklist
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Free checklist download · For Dads figuring it out

The free checklist that sets your kid up before they turn 5.

18 shows up faster than you think. This is how they arrive with a head start instead of a starting line.

$7,061

That is the cost of waiting 1 more year. $200 a month started at 2 grows to $70,454 by 18. That could be $7k less if you put it off another year.

The 5 Things to Set Up Before Your Kid Turns 5 checklist

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  • The 5 things that put your kid ahead by 18
  • The 1 thing worth $7,061 this year alone
  • What to set up first, before the next birthday

What’s in it

5 things your kid will thank you for at 18.

Set up in the right order, they run on their own until the day they need them.

The engine, where every year of waiting has a price tag

This is where the $7,061 comes from. Set it up once and it works for your kid for 13 straight years, whether you ever think about it again or not.

01

The flexibility play, for the kid who doesn’t follow the script

College is 1 future, not the only one. This keeps money useful for a kid who starts a business, buys tools, or moves cities at 19. It carries 1 tradeoff almost nobody says out loud, and the checklist does.

02

The head start almost no kid gets

Maybe 1 dad in 100 sets this one up in time, which is exactly why it made the list. There is a strict condition on it, and getting the condition wrong creates real problems. We are blunt about where the line is.

03

The wall between kid costs and catastrophe money

Orthodontics, a travel team, a school trip. Predictable in category, brutal in timing. This keeps a surprise $3,000 bill from eating the cushion that exists for a lost job.

04

The 5 minute check that protects all of it

You did the first version of this before the hospital. Your life has changed shape since, and the protection you set up was sized for facts you are no longer living in.

05

This is not a “you’re behind” list. Nobody’s behind here. Year 1 was survival. This is what comes next, and it is the same 5 things whether you start today or started 2 years ago.

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1 read and you will know exactly what to set up, in what order, and what to ignore.

No more open tabs, no more forum threads, no more “I should really look into that.”

The 5 Things to Set Up Before Your Kid Turns 5 checklist

Send it to my inbox

  • The 5 things that put your kid ahead by 18
  • The 1 thing worth $7,061 this year alone
  • What to set up first, before the next birthday