Dennis Tew, a father of 3 boys under 7 and CFO at Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. knows that even buying popcorn at the hockey arena is a chance to teach his sons about money. When his family is cheering on Kieran (age 4) in the stands, Liam (age 6) is counting change and approaching the popcorn stand by himself. “It’s not…
The old parenting model of mothers as Homemaker and fathers as Breadwinner is giving way to a growing change about who keeps the home fires burning. Recent figures from Statistics Canada reveal Canadian couples are re-balancing the work of supporting a family. In 1976, when new fathers rarely crossed the threshold of hospital delivery rooms, stay-at-home dads represented only one…