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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so bizarre that UMC parents let teenage brats who've never made $1 in their life determine where and how they're going to spend the $100,000-280,000 ***YOU*** earned! Give me a break. They want to make a dumb decision tell them to pay for it themselves.[/quote] This is a really short-sighted POV. Instead of starting from the proposition that money is what gives you control over your kids, start from the premise that your goal is to teach your kids how to make good choices so that they're responsible and capable decisionmakers when you're not around and/or when they have money of their own. Part of that is modeling rational decisionmaking, part of that is talking through their options from a variety of different perspectives, and part of that is letting them make choices you wouldn't make and then seeing what happens. Sometimes they learn something; sometimes you learn something from that experience. [/quote]
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