My kids are now one and three and I enjoy their company tremendously. I especially love it when it is late at night and they finally fall asleep on me. Ask any parent and they will tell you that it is most calming and therapeutic to watch their baby chests rise and fall as they waddle through their little kiddie dreamland.

That is the time where peace prevails and my thoughts are allowed to wander. I think about happy things like how awesome they have been. I also think about more flippant things like why I can never seem to get the lyrics of Thomas the Train theme song right. And just the other night, watching the kiddos resting, I came to realise that the game of parenting actually has so many similarities to the game of investing.

So here are three reasons why parenting and investing are actually, really, rather ...