Part of Family E, the LegacyPot persona anthologies. Fifteen guides, sequenced. A child arrives with wonder and with a long list of decisions that no one hands you in the ward. Some are urgent and loud, like where the next term's fees will come from. Others are quiet and easy to ...
The money decisions of the first decade, before the squeeze and the second child.
Part of Family E, the LegacyPot persona anthologies. Fifteen guides, sequenced.
A child arrives with wonder and with a long list of decisions that no one hands you in the ward. Some are urgent and loud, like where the next term's fees will come from. Others are quiet and easy to postpone for a decade, like the guardianship letter that names who raises your child if you cannot. This playbook gathers the decisions of the first parenting decade into one place and puts them in an order you can actually follow.
It is written for real Ugandan and East African households, where a naming ceremony is a good day to start an education pot, where grandparents arrive with love and opinions about money, and where a single income often has to stretch across a season it was never designed for. It does not pretend these pressures away. It gives each of them a small, faithful next step that a tired parent can take.
The fifteen guides move through four seasons. The First Year covers what to set up while the details are fresh: the education pot, your first five documents, and the cover, health then life, that protects the people who depend on you. Making the Money Work is the engineering of a growing family: the one-income season, childcare as an investment rather than a cost, the arithmetic of a second child, and the squeeze years when both are in school at once. Protection and People turns to guardianship, to the grandparent boundary conversation, to money between co-parents, and to the single parent's system, because not every household has two adults and every household deserves a plan. The final movement, Raising Well and Looking Ahead, is about the children themselves: raising an heir without raising entitlement, keeping a story file they will treasure, and holding a decade plan you revisit as they grow.
Read it in sequence to build the whole system, then return to any chapter as your child reaches it. Keep the pots, documents, and plans inside LegacyPot so the next parent in your family, and one day your child, can see not only what you decided but why. The first decade is where a family's money culture is set. Set it on purpose.
The four movements
Set these up while the details are fresh. The pot that starts at the naming ceremony, the first documents, and the cover that protects your dependents.