# 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
- [How an Inherited Annuity Is Taxed: Memorial Merits Founder Gabriel Killian on What a Lump Sum Costs](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/how-is-an-inherited-annuity-taxed): The Navy veteran's free calculator shows beneficiaries the federal tax on each payout option before they sign the insurer's claim form, and his Virginia Beach company launched a national funeral cost calculator on October 6.
- [Reading App Omphalis Lets Readers Use AI to Understand a Research Paper by Asking Questions Out Loud](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/how-to-use-ai-to-understand-a-research-paper): Founder Stanly Thomas, who has more than 20 years of engineering experience, including roles at Microsoft, Oracle and Schneider Electric, designed the voice feature to ground each spoken answer in the reader's selected sources, with the passages it used on screen.
- [Rocket Mortgage Will Use VantageScore Instead of FICO as Its Default Credit Score](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/rocket-mortgage-vantagescore-instead-of-fico): Rent and utility payments already in your credit file can count toward the score on a Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or VA loan with Rocket from late 2026.
- [Laurence Baer Releases "Effortlessly", the Third Chapter of Across Light](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/laurence-baer-effortlessly-across-light): The third chapter of the songwriter's 21-song collection is a gospel-jazz track with a female lead vocal and a horn section, built from his own composition with AI synthesis.
- [Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/hanns-scharff-son-chris-scharff-memoir): Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.
- [Your Child's Weight May Be Partly About Biology, Even at Age 4](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/childhood-weight-brain-biology-age-4-fiu-study): The brain differences linked to it appear years earlier than scientists had documented before, and the researchers say it is no reason to change how you feed her, or to blame yourself.
- [Joseph Howse's Soviet-Era Novel The Circus and the Atom Wins World Literature and Audiobook Fiction at the 2026 NYC Big Book Award](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/joseph-howse-circus-and-the-atom-nyc-big-book-award): The Nova Scotia author's second book, set in Kiev over the New Year of 1988 into 1989, also took a Distinguished Favorite for its cover, while his debut The Girl in the Water was honoured for its audiobook. The Next Year's Snow series has now sold to more than 80 public library systems in seven countries.
- [Poverty Among Americans Over 65 Rose Again in 2025 as the National Rate Fell](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/senior-poverty-rate-2025-social-security-medical-costs): More than 10 million older Americans cannot afford basics like food, housing and medicine, and the out-of-pocket health costs Social Security never keeps up with are driving the number higher.
- [Mortgage Lenders Are Quoting an $845,000 Conforming Loan Limit for 2027, Ahead of the Government's Official Figure](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/mortgage-lenders-2027-conforming-loan-limit-845000): The early number is the lenders' projection, and a loan sized to it could land on costlier jumbo terms if the FHFA's final figure comes in lower.
- [Buyers Have More Homes to Pick From, and More Room to Haggle](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/housing-supply-six-year-high-buyers-market-2026): The supply of homes for sale hit its highest level in years in August, and three in five sold for less than the seller first asked.
- [A Father's Joy, a Songwriter's Mission: Inside Laurence Baer's Across Light](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/laurence-baer-across-light-babys-baby-bump): The Grammy-nominated songwriter's current single, "Baby's Baby Bump," is out September 11 and was co-written with Darren Holden of Ireland's The High Kings.
- [End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/end-times-fascism-naomi-klein-astra-taylor): Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.
- [John Bissell's The Power of Negative Thinking Draws on 14 Years Rescuing Failing Businesses in Portland](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/john-bissell-power-of-negative-thinking): The author lost a company of his own when a single client went bankrupt owing him 83% of his income, then coached more than 100 owners of failing businesses between 1986 and 2000. His practical guide argues that doubt and worry, used deliberately, are better preparation than forced positivity.
- [Men's Suits Are Back in the Office for Autumn 2026 and the Cut Has Changed Since 2020](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/mens-suits-autumn-2026-office-tailoring): Savile Row bespoke starts at £7,500 for 80 hours of handwork, the Prime Minister wears a £595 Oliver Brown, and the warmest year on record argues for a lighter cloth than the flannel your tailor will suggest.
- [Outback Odyssey Review: The Yorkshire Orphan Who Asked to Be Taught the Land](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/outback-odyssey-review): Paul Rushworth-Brown's post-war migrant novel sends a Yorkshire orphan by ship to a Gippsland sheep station, and its opening chapters are the author's own father's story.
- [Healthy Habits This Autumn Begin With a Shorter To-Do List](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/healthy-habits-autumn-shorter-to-do-list): Three tasks a day and a to-be list of a few words leave room for seven weeks of proper rest before the clocks go back on 25 October.
- [The Expanse Is Coming Back a Third Time, Now as a Game](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-expanse-osiris-reborn-owlcat-2027): The studio building it, Owlcat Games, made its name on dense, choice-heavy RPGs like Rogue Trader, and it is working with Alcon Interactive Group, the company behind the original series.
- [The Science of Self-Trust, and Why It Comes Before Trusting Anyone Else ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/the-science-of-self-trust-and-why-it-comes-before-trusting-anyone-else): You cannot accurately read whether someone else deserves your trust if you do not trust your own judgment in the first place. What psychological research on attachment, self-efficacy and interoception reveals about self-trust, and why it is the foundation for trusting other people.
- [Scorching Summers Get Men Dress-Down and work in Shorts](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/scorching-summers-get-men-dress-down-and-work-in-shorts): Retail sales figures and Reuters reporting on why scorching summer heat is finally getting men into shorts at the office, from Tokyo's Cool Biz campaign to a Warsaw bus driver's skirt protest.
- [8 Steps to Think With Clarity and Feel Renewed Energy This Autumn ](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/8-steps-to-think-with-clarity-and-feel-renewed-energy-this-autumn): Brain fog and low energy are not simply a mood. They have real, identifiable physiological causes, several of which get measurably worse the moment the clocks start shifting toward autumn. The real science behind autumn brain fog and low energy and eight practical steps grounded in circadian biology, blood sugar and sleep research.
- [More US Parents Are Taking Their Kids Out of School to Save on Travel](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/taking-kids-out-of-school-to-travel-off-peak): Pulling children out for a few off-peak days can shave hundreds off a family trip, but teachers and a wider absence problem complicate the decision.
- [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.

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