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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the goal in having them understand their privilege?

I’m not asking that I’m a snarky manner at all.  We’re relatively privileged, but not at the OPs level.

Is it so they develop a work ethic?

So they realize how hard/smart someone not born to wealth has to work to maintain a certain lifestyle?

So they aren’t jerks as adults?

So they don’t come off as rich kids and embarrass you?

So you don’t feel guilty?

Because I while poverty tourism or playing lady/lord of the manor and being generous at Christmas to poor kids might teach privileged kids that they have an obligation to be generous, it really doesn’t teach them anything about WHY some kids were born with parents who make 7 figures and other kids were born into families that will never make it off public assistance.

Exploring why we have class stratification in an age appropriate manner might help with that, but it can be a hard to swallow that fate is unfair when you’re the one who benefits from it.

Demonstrating it requires actions that avoid resource hoarding, such as pulling strings for internships or advocating NIMBY policies.  It’s hard because parents naturally want to resource hoard for their children. 
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NP. So that your kid doesn’t show up at college & or their first job and sound like an entitled, out of touch prick. [/quote]

PP - fair enough.  Then it’s not Christmas generosity and poverty tourism.  It would be modeling behavior and not being an entitled out of touch prick yourself, not fixing everything for your kid, and having your kid do chores and clean their own room/bathroom even if you have household help.

So your kid knows how to sweep up something that’s been spilled, check a circuit breaker, change a lightbulb, unclog a toilet, not assume everyone has travelled extensively  etc etc.  [/quote]

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