Watching your kids may be a higher priority for you than watching the stock market, but that doesn't mean a busy parent has to miss out on the proven power of long-term investing in the form of buying and holding great stocks.

There are plenty of opportunities out there for buying shares of companies that don't require the close monitoring that goes into successfully navigating the very wide world of individual stocks. Better yet, some of them provide a nice flow of passive income, or money you generate from an investment while not actively managing it yourself. In this case, that income comes from dividends.

Three solid dividend investments to consider here are Agree Realty (NYSE: ADC), Stag Industrial (NYSE: STAG), and Mid-American Apartment Communities (NYSE: MAA).

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