If you were creating a coffee can type portfolio for your child that they would get access to when they are 18 and you're going to blindly (ish) DCA into it regularly for them.

What are 5 Stocks you would HAVE to put in there?

Goal is to compound and also get them interested.

We're going to cheat and anchor it with an 80% allocation to $VTI (or $VOO, doesn't matter).
Then 5% to the remaining 4 stocks:
$DIS - because every kid knows Disney
$FNKO - because pop-culture figurines and board games are cool.
$HSY - chocolates ... c'mon now ... who doesn't love chocolates !
$MCD - because kids won't be able to avoid the brand recognition, plus burgers & fries are fun.
It won't really matter how the above 4 perform, all that really matters is the boring 80% allocation to $VTI.  Kids will just focus on the coolness of owning those fun businesses that they have high engagement with.
As they get older, hopefully at some point, they might realise the real engine of growth over the long term is likely going to be staid, turtle-like, boring $VTI (or $VOO).

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