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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]Will they think we are “poor” even though we most certainly are not?[/b]

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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You just need to teach them that self-confidence and self-worth doesn't depend on money. Maybe one day you truly will become poor because of some set of unfortunate circumstances. Would you feel less if that happened? You shouldn't.[/quote]

+1, so what if they think they're poor?  Maybe they'll be scrappy and work even harder to "rise up" out of the squalor and poverty of Bethesda.[/quote]

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