Eva Basilion

As a child, I was a piano prodigy. I entered my first piano completion at age 6. Bela Bartok. By 18, I was burnt out. I have barely touched the piano since.

There is a woman I used to follow on here who talked a lot about parenting. She understood child development more than most people and I thought many of her takes were right on. Until one day she said that she didn’t think parents could be trusted to parent. And that was it. I was done. Some of the most dangerous people are those who are right about everything except for the thing that matters most.

Couple comes in for their annual review. $2.8 million. Well invested. Solid Pension. Completely on track. I ask the question I ask everyone. "How is your daughter doing?" Mom's face changed first. Their daughter is 39. Hasn't asked for anything. Never complained. But she's been in the same apartment for six years. Daycare alone is $1,800 a month. Down payment feels impossible. Dad said "we always figured she'd get it eventually." I pulled up a simple chart. Statistically they live to 88. She inherits at 56. Maybe 60. At 60 her own retirement is eight years away. The money that could change everything at 39 arrives when her finish line is already close. Neither of them had ever seen it framed that way. The annual gift exclusion is $19,000 per parent per child. They can move $38,000 a year to her. No gift tax. No estate implications. Over ten years that's $380,000 transferred while they're healthy enough to watch it matter. Dad looked at his wife. "Why are we waiting?" Most families leave everything at death because nobody showed them the math of giving it while they're alive.

Women dress this way deliberately to get male attention so that they can then complain about it. It's a stupid little girl's game. -J

There is a difference between showing off and flirting. Most of the time women are showing off and want to be noticed. They don’t want to go to bed with you. Unless you are a psychopath. In that case she probably would rather not be noticed at all. How you choose to react is the thing that turns this into something lovely or something ugly. You can respond respectfully and then everyone wins. Only psychopaths or adults who are stunted in their development who can’t get a grip of their urges view a beautiful woman being beautiful as some kind of manipulative game. You can spot these guys from a mile away.

Women dress this way deliberately to get male attention so that they can then complain about it. It's a stupid little girl's game. -J

Look at this goldfish my brilliant, autistic, prodigy of a daughter Annika drew when she was 10 years old. I mean really look at it. She blows my mind.