Newsweek includes a major article focusing on raising a "Global Kid"...and it starts by focusing on Demopolis, Alabama raised Multi-Millionaire investment expert and author Jim Rogers. The magazine quotes him as saying:
“I’m doing what parents have done for many years,” Jim Rogers says. “I’m trying to prepare my children for the future, for the 21st century. I’m trying to prepare them as best I can for the world as I see it.”
He says the future is Asian...and so he and his wife moved to Singapore, where his daughter Happy speaks English and Mandarin fluently.
Those of you who are parents of young children (or grandchildren) read the article and wonder...am I doing enough?
[A small addendum. During my Talk-Radio years in Birmingham, a PR person (was it Lynn Sampson?) kept trying to convince me to book Jim Rogers on a show, and it never happened. He was riding motorcycles around and spouting investment advice back then and I just couldn't get a handle on him for an interview. Jim: all is forgiven. I was wrong! Come home! (-: [
