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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids aren't graduated yet, but some of my friends kids are.[b] Some kids just do better paying for it themselves. [/b]One family I know started out paying, then quit and almost instantly the kid started taking life much more seriously. Some just need that responsibility factor. Maybe the parents plan to give the other kids money Some other way. Maybe the youngest is just a better investment.[/quote]

Hahaha! This is how a-hole parents rationalize this toxic garbage. [i]We didn't pay because you needed to bootstrap your way through life.[/i] These same toxic parents will then show up for milestones and boast that their ace parenting is why the kid is successful, when really, any success is in spite of their toxic parenting.[/quote]

It’s like you’re at my family thanksgiving table!

The truth is - I am proud at how I made my own way independently and gained a lot of self sufficiency from it. But yeah, zero relationship with my parents now. I feel zero guilt about letting the younger sibs carry the entire load of elder care. And some of the younger sibs haven’t done all that well in life either so I don’t resent them. [/quote]

+3. My parents sent me to truly awful public schools which I would tell them were awful while I was a student. Fast forward a couple years and my two youngest siblings were sent to private. Now in retrospect decades later, any conversation about my awful k-12 school and they will gaslight me that my schools were just fine and I’m exaggerating how bad they were. Wtf. They were literally so bad you sent my younger siblings to private![/quote]

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