Parents - Easing the Pain of Paying for Your Child's College Tuition

If you have one child or five children, they willtax-free for your child's education. Make sure you
most likely all be attending college one day in thetalk with your accountant in your human
near future. Have you thought about who will beresources department at work about these
paying for your child's college education? Will youoptions. You may choose to contribute a certain
be requiring your child to pay for their ownpercentage of your pay to your child's education
college? Are you thinking about contributing half ofaccount, instead of all your money going into your
their expenses? Will you be paying for the entire401(k).
college education? These are questions, as aIt is estimated that more than half of the parents
parent, you must consider sooner than later.in the United States do not save any money for
There is one word when it comes to paying fortheir child's college tuition. It is also estimated that
college tuition, it is a very boring word which youonly 25% of parents start saving for their child's
have heard before many times. This word iscollege tuition by the time the child turns eight
called saving. Many parents will not be able toyears old. If you factor in these statistics, you will
afford to write one check each year, for fourbe able to understand why more and more
years in a row to cover their child's college tuition.students have to borrow money to go to college.
This is because the cost of college is very highThere are more students each year that want to
and rising each year.attend college, and this number continues to rise.
The more money that you put away in a savingsWhile this number continues to grow up, the
account, money market account, stocks, bonds,number of parents that are saving for their child's
or other investments, the sin that money you putcollege education is going down. You have a
away will start to grow and pay for your child'schance, now that you know about these facts, to
college education. There are other options besidesbegin to save for your son or daughter's college
a 401(k) that you can choose to put your moneyeducation before it is too late. Make sure you
into each month. There are certain educationstart right away.
accounts that you can contribute money to