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[quote=Anonymous]This is a tangent that I started thinking about after reading through the “big vs small houses” entertaining thread.

What mostly concerns me living in a modest/small home in this area is that my children’s ideas about money and success will be skewed for life. We live in a $750k home in Bethesda, which only gets us 2 bedrooms! That is insane compared to the rest of the country. We have a HHI of close to $300k and some family money as a safety net as well. Based on these stats alone we are doing super well compared to 95% of the families in the US. 
But I worry about how I will explain this to my young children when they become old enough to notice the difference between our “tiny” home and their friends’ larger homes. Will they think we are “poor” even though we most certainly are not?

I know that my kids will feel super loved and will grow up in a happy home, but how do I instill in them a sense of gratitude about all they are blessed with  from a young impressionable age once they start going to school with kids that are mostly “better-off” financially (at least from appearances)?
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