# Rich Dad Magazine

> Legacy Starts at Home

Rich Dad Magazine, for fathers building something that lasts: fatherhood, legacy, and the work that matters.

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## Sections
- [Fatherhood](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/fatherhood): Raising children and the craft of being a father
- [Family & Relationships](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/family-relationships): Marriage, parenting together and the ties that hold a family
- [Money & Legacy](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/money-legacy): Family finances, wealth that outlasts you, and what you pass on
- [Health & Strength](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/health-strength): Fitness, longevity and staying strong for the people who rely on you
- [Food](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/food): Cooking for the family, provisioning and the pleasure of a good meal
- [Work & Purpose](https://richdadmagazine.com/category/work-purpose): Career, providing, and the work that matters

## Latest articles
- [No More Paying to Sit With Your Own Children on a Plane](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/no-more-paying-to-sit-with-your-own-children-on-a-plane): After more than a decade stuck in negotiation, the European Parliament has approved a genuine overhaul of air passenger rights, banning airlines from charging parents to sit next to children under 14 and forcing clearer pricing from the moment you start searching for a flight.
- [London Calling: The Week Starting 31 August 2026 ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/london-calling-the-week-starting-31-august-2026): What is on in London for the week starting 31 August 2026, from Bank Holiday Monday closings to the start of Totally Thames.
- [US Foreclosures Rose Again in July but Stayed Near Historic Lows](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/us-foreclosures-july-2026-still-historic-lows): Most of the increase traces back to a handful of states and to FHA and VA loans, not to a broad crack in the housing market.
- [Diet in 2026 Versus Diet in 1976: How the Last Fifty Years Changed Your Lifestyle](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/diet-in-2026-versus-diet-in-1976-what-fifty-years-actually-changed): Were people happier at the dinner table fifty years ago, with smaller plates and considerably less on them? The measurable science behind fifty years of change in your diet, from portion size to social media, and what it means for prevention.
- [ Social Media's Testosterone Pipeline, and the Health Risks It Leaves Out](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/social-media-s-testosterone-pipeline-and-the-health-risks-it-leaves-out): Scroll for long enough and the algorithm will eventually tell you your testosterone is probably low. A wave of recent research has traced exactly how that message reaches young men, and what it leaves out about the real risks of acting on it.
- [Buyers Priced Out of Big Cities Are Finding Cheaper New Homes in the South](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/buyers-cheaper-new-homes-affordable-south-2026): The cheaper Sun Belt price tag often leans on a temporary mortgage subsidy and carrying costs that never appear on the listing.
- [AI Now Steers About a Third of Shoppers, Often Toward Brands They Had Not Considered](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/ai-shopping-discovery-brands-bcg): Product discovery is moving inside the chatbot's answer, where most brands cannot see whether an AI is recommending them or why.
- [Families Are Financing a Record Back-to-School Bill on Installment Plans](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/back-to-school-record-spending-installment-plans-2026): Getting children ready for the classroom cost more than ever in 2026, yet a growing share of households are stretching those payments over weeks and leaning on credit to cover them. The distance between the rising total and how it actually gets paid points to a cash-flow squeeze visible across the wider consumer economy.
- [The Joy of Gardening: Late-Summer Notes on Curb Appeal  to Upgrade Your Property Valuation](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-joy-of-gardening-late-summer-notes-on-curb-appeal-to-upgrade-your-property-valuation): A buyer decides how they feel about your home before they reach the front door. Late summer, while everything is still growing and nothing has died back yet, is the best moment of the year to make that decision work in your favour.
- [ Identity and the Status Quo: What It Actually Means to Be Born a Prince](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/identity-and-the-status-quo-what-it-actually-means-to-be-born-a-prince): Clément Vandenkerckhove sold cars for a living until a DNA test confirmed what Belgium had whispered about for over two decades. He is now legally a prince. He still answers to the same surname, still has no royal allowance, and still is not in line for any throne. His story is less about royalty than about what identity actually is when the title changes and almost nothing else does.
- [The Best Upcoming Children's Books to Read This Autumn](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-best-upcoming-children-s-books-to-read-this-autumn): This autumn's children's list has an unusually confident range to it, gentle picture books about loss and community sitting alongside twin detectives, a lizard with genuine comic timing, and a visual tribute to David Bowie built for readers who have never heard a note of his music.
- [ What Actually Lowers Your Cortisol This Autumn](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/what-actually-lowers-your-cortisol-this-autumn): The season turns, the routine tightens, and your stress hormones often follow. Here is what the real research says works, and why autumn specifically is worth paying attention to.
- [Homeowners' Equity Cushion Has Thinned for a Full Year](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/home-equity-cushion-thins-five-year-low): The portion of U.S. homes with at least 50% equity fell to 41.1% in the second quarter, the fourth straight quarterly drop and the lowest reading in nearly five years.
- [The Massive Transfer of Wealth Reshaping Real Estate](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-massive-transfer-of-wealth-reshaping-real-estate): Roughly $4.6 trillion in global real estate is set to change hands over the next decade, and the generation inheriting it is buying nothing like the generation that built it. Coldwell Banker's own data shows the shape of the shift already under way.
- [Escape to Europe: Slovenia in Autumn Colours ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/escape-to-europe-slovenia-in-autumn-colours): A country the size of a modest American county holds an entire autumn's worth of colour inside its borders, lakes, gorges and mountain passes turning gold and copper within an hour's drive of each other, and almost nobody there to see it happen.
- [Status Quo: How Location Shapes Your Self-Perception and Identity ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/status-quo-how-location-shapes-your-self-perception-and-identity): The place you live is not a neutral backdrop to your life. It is a running commentary on who you are allowed to be, delivered so consistently that you stop noticing it is there at all.
- [Where Can I Move for the Best Quality of Life and What Will It Actually Cost Me This Year?](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/where-can-i-move-for-the-best-quality-of-life-and-what-will-it-actually-cost-me-this-year): Where you could move for the best quality of life in 2026, and the real relocation costs for the Netherlands, Switzerland and Oman.
- [Homebuyers Have the Upper Hand in the US Housing Market Right Now](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/us-housing-buyers-market-record-low-buyers-186761): The number of Americans trying to buy a home just hit a record low, and sellers now outnumber them by about half.
- [Gardening for Your Wellbeing This Autumn: 10 Healthy Minutes for 10 Lasting Plants](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/gardening-for-your-wellbeing-this-autumn-10-healthy-minutes-for-10-lasting-plants): How gardening supports your mental wellbeing this autumn, with simple steps to start and ten low-maintenance plants to grow. You do not need a green thumb or a weekend of free time to get the wellbeing benefits of gardening this autumn. You need ten minutes, a few pots, and ten plants that are genuinely hard to kill.
- [China Is Teaching Six Year Olds to Speak AI](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/china-is-teaching-six-year-olds-to-speak-ai): While Western governments debate whether artificial intelligence belongs in the classroom at all, China has already made it compulsory from the age of six. The policy is less about teaching children to code than about building a generation that treats AI the way earlier generations treated arithmetic.
- [Monday Mindset: The Back to School Mindset, and the Science Behind It](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/monday-mindset-the-back-to-school-mindset-and-the-science-behind-it): A back to school mindset is a psychological shift from a relaxed routine to a structured, goal-oriented one. Here is the science behind why it works, and the lifestyle choices that make the shift considerably easier.
- [How to Choose the Best Affordable Hotels in Europe This Autumn ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/how-to-choose-the-best-affordable-hotels-in-europe-this-autumn): Best Affordable Hotels in Europe This Autumn seoDescription: How to find genuinely good, affordable hotels across Europe this autumn, from timing your booking to picking the right city.
- [ Happy Table: Best Anti-Inflammatory Foods for Autumn ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/happy-table-best-anti-inflammatory-foods-for-autumn): With autumn round the corner, the comfort food cravings arrive, and your plate can still work in your favour. Here is what to put on it this autumn, and why each choice earns its place.
- [China AI Companion Crackdown 2026](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/china-ai-companion-crackdown-2026): China's new rules on emotionally interactive AI have already switched off companion features used by hundreds of millions of people. Here is what the crackdown actually targets, and what it reveals about a problem no country has solved.
- [Best London's Location: What's Really Happening to the Most Expensive Properties Values This Autumn](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/best-london-s-location-what-s-really-happening-to-the-most-expensive-properties-values-this-autumn): Asking prices in London fell faster in August than in any other region, the choice of homes for sale is the widest since 2010, and a change of prime minister has only partly settled the nerves. Here is what the data shows about values, mortgage rates and the Autumn Budget.
- [Car Insurance Rates Are Climbing Again in More Than Half the Country in 2026](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/car-insurance-rates-rising-2026-us-states): After a year of falling premiums, car insurance rates are rising across most of the United States in 2026, with the steepest increases concentrated in a handful of states.
- [Jason Arday, Cambridge's Youngest Black Professor, Dies Days at 41 After His Memoir is Published](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/jason-arday-cambridge-s-youngest-black-professor-dies-days-at-41-after-his-memoir-is-published): Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge on 5 August amid allegations of academic misconduct he denied. His memoir was published three days before he was found dead at his London home, prompting tribute from colleagues and renewed debate over how certain media reporting against him, not about him, were conducting toxic journalism.
- [What Actually Thrives in a Summer This Hot](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/what-actually-thrives-in-a-summer-this-hot): The UK is on track for its hottest summer on record, with parts of England already past 38 degrees and forty-five million people living under drought. What is actually surviving this heat in British gardens, and the decades-old proof that a garden never needed a hosepipe at all.
- [Relocation's Cost when Moving to the World's Best Countries for High Quality of Life](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/relocation-s-cost-when-moving-to-the-world-s-best-countries-with-high-quality-of-life): Real relocation costs for the Netherlands, Switzerland and Oman, 2026's top ranked quality of life countries, from visas to healthcare.
- [Home Values Near New Data Centers Are Holding Steady](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/data-centers-home-values-housing-market-2026): Homes near a new facility keep far more of their for-sale listings on the market three years on, and the next wave is landing in poorer, more remote communities than the last one did.
- [Jeremy Clarkson Asked the Helicopter Owners for £10,000 Each to Finish Chris Hoy’s £1 Million](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/clarkson-helicopter-owners-10000-hoy-tour-de-4): The afternoon of clay pigeon shooting in Northamptonshire was run for a charity Sir Chris Hoy started after his own stage four diagnosis.
- [Federal Judge Freezes North Korea-Linked Crypto Wallets in the $1.5 Billion Bybit Theft](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/bybit-north-korea-court-injunction-nft-notice): To reach defendants it could not name, the exchange delivered notice of the case by airdropping NFTs into their wallets, and one holder wrote back.
- [ The Happy Table: Anti-Inflammatory, Summer-Vibes Foods Worth Experimenting With This Week ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-happy-table-anti-inflammatory-summer-vibes-foods-worth-experimenting-with-this-week): A weed most gardeners pull out and throw away turns out to be one of the richest plant sources of omega-3 fats known to nutrition science. This week's Happy Table looks at what current inflammation research actually supports and which adventurous summer ingredients are worth putting on the table.
- [Blue Zones and Metabolism: What the Science Really Shows ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/blue-zones-and-metabolism-what-the-science-really-shows): A popular wellness industry has grown up around the promise of a Blue Zones metabolism reset, a way to stop storing fat by eating like the world's longest-lived people. The real story is stranger and more useful than the marketing, and it involves an Ig Nobel Prize-winning statistician quietly unravelling some of the data behind it.
- [Monday Mindset: Why Mondays Feel Hard and How to Reset](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/monday-mindset-why-mondays-feel-hard-and-how-to-reset): The real science behind why Mondays feel harder than other days, and the single evidence-backed habit that reduces the effect.
- [Americans Need $70,693 to Afford a Starter Home and $109,796 for a Typical One](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/income-needed-starter-home-versus-typical-home-june-2026): Entry-level affordability has improved for eight straight months, though the mortgage rate behind the June figures has since risen to its highest since last July.
- [In Wildfire Testing, a House Is Most Vulnerable at Its Deck and Its First Five Feet](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/wildfire-testing-deck-joists-zone-0-house-survival): Full-scale experiments at an insurer-funded research center found that watering the shrubs beside a wall can leave the building worse off, and that a deck burns from its joists upward.
- [After a Storm, Letting a Contractor Cover Your Deductible Can Void Your Insurance](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/contractor-fraud-deductible-storm-insurance): The National Insurance Crime Bureau has put out three contractor-fraud warnings since May, and says reported cases climbed 38 percent in two years.
- [Back-to-College Spending Is Set to Pass $100 Billion for the First Time](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/back-to-college-spending-passes-100-billion): College shoppers plan to spend nearly $112 more each than they did last year, while the average family buying for a child in elementary through high school is adding less than $6.
- [A Wildfire Can Flood a House Miles Away, Years After the Burn](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/monsoon-burn-scar-flash-flooding-southwest): In New Mexico, as much as 60 percent of the year's rain falls between July and September, and ground left bare by a high intensity fire sheds it like pavement for years afterwards.

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