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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We talk about it all the time. How affluent the majority of this area is and how it contrasts with how desparately poor so much of the other half of this area is.  What is considered "middle class" in this area and how those opportunities we can afford contrasts to what their truly middle class cousins in  the midwest have.

We talk about how affluence does not mean better although many in this area believe it does. We talk about character and kindness and compassion for others and that those with those traits are more valuable than material wealth.[/quote]

Just curious how old your children are.

I'm pp Asian-American poster. We never talk about money to our kids. They are 4 and 6.[/quote]

An am part asian.

My kids are early elementary through young teen.

The discussion is age appropriate. My 13 year old and I have had some fabulous conversations about this. My older elementary kid and I talk about things like this as well. We touch on it in age appropriate ways with my youngest

I grew up in a poorer area (trailer parks and small houses, mostly blue collar workers). Due to a wonderful spouse, we have a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle (although dcum consideres our HH income to be on the low or middle end of middle class).

I see my kids surrounded by what dcum considers basic middle class but what I know to be as affluence: $500 swim memberships, comfortable homes, nice cars, paying out of pocket for car repairs, home improvements and new gadgets. My kids get to sign up for $150 after school minecraft clubs and we don't even blink.

Most people in most parts of the country don't live like this. Most people in the middle class do not have the level of comfort that the dcum "middle class" has. We are in a bubble in this part of the country, and really out of touch with how most of the country lives.

I want my kids to be aware of this and not tie value of a person to affluence. I want them to be able to connect with the laborer with the muddy boots living in the trailer park back home and to see their worth and value as easily as they relate to the educated, cultured, affluent and priveledged person from this area, so we talk about those kinds of things all the time.

I will not raise snobs and I will raise decent kind people who see value and goodness in others that is not tied to their status in society.

If you don't discuss these kinds of things with your kids, how will they learn them?[/quote]

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