{"id":360748,"date":"2026-07-31T21:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/a-boy-worth-fighting-for-the-barefoot-investor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:03:30","slug":"a-boy-worth-fighting-for-the-barefoot-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=360748","title":{"rendered":"A Boy Worth Fighting For \u2014 The Barefoot Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"is-empty is-editor-empty\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u200dWe were somewhere over Malaysia, wedged into economy with four kids, when the fighting started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">It was hot. It was cramped. And the chicken satay I\u2019d wolfed down in Singapore was staging a violent protest somewhere south of my belt buckle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cJust shut up, the lot of you\u201d, I thundered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">My five-year-old burst into tears. \u201cDaddy said the F-word!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cShut up is not an F-word\u201d, I protested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cWe don\u2019t speak like that in our house\u201d, he sobbed, like he was reading me my rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Liz just glared at me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">We were on our way to Cambodia. I figured the trip would teach my kids a thing or two about how good they\u2019ve got it back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Little did I know the biggest lesson was waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">But it wasn\u2019t some big temple or ancient ruin that did the teaching. It started three months before we even landed in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">A mother gave birth to a little baby boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">She placed him in a plastic bag. Then she tied it shut and, for reasons only she will ever know, tossed him onto a rubbish pile to die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Yet he wouldn\u2019t die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">This tiny baby, only a few days old, no bigger than a footy, screamed through the plastic and the garbage until a rice farmer walking past heard him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Now, this farmer had nothing. Dirt floor, hungry kids of his own, crops that barely fed his family. 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