Your children have a better opportunity to seek higher education in several foreign and domestic universities. Parents must start saving for their children’s education early to ensure they have the required corpus to meet the expenses. However, saving for your children’s education must not mean ignoring other goals, such as your retirement.
You must differentiate between short-term and long-term goals. An important long-term goal is retirement and you must never compromise on saving for it. This is because any shortfall towards paying for your children’s education may be funded through a loan. However, any shortfall in your retirement corpus is not...