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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He sounds myopic, wealthy people/including celebrities have often voiced this concern and there are various ways to handle it, if you are serious about wanting to stack your odds to help create grateful, unentitled, motivated and balanced people there are things that can be done. He doesn't have to invent the wheel. He's talking about it like it's a unique dilemma. [/quote]

He was asked so he gave an honest answer. Is he supposed to make up something to make it sound more profound or should he just answer honestly?

[b]When asked how he keeps his kids grounded, he said, “It’s probably the hardest thing for us as parents, you know, with myself and my wife.”
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What do you think he should have answered? [/quote]

Maybe he and his family should try and get involved with helping those less fortunate to teach empathy and how to do good with what you have.[/quote]

Meh. It would never be good enough for you. [/quote]

From previous post - it can be done

I not generally a fan of the Kennedy family but I remember an interview once with Maria Shriver where she talked about how this was drilled into her as a child and it's something she drills into her own kids and she's grateful for it because she thinks when you are born into money and privilege, it has a tendency to demotivate and make it hard to identify a life purpose. But charity work and helping people who are less fortunate is an endless enterprise, and it's hard. No matter how much money you have, doing that work will always pose challenges. It gives wealthy people something to really try at, and it contains actual hard-won victories instead of the often easy successes that the very privileged get used to acquiring.

Again, too a Kennedy fan generally but this did make me respect Shriver a bit and this seems like a smart way to deal with the problem Brady is talking about here. Most of the roadmaps for parenting assume lots of built in limitations on kids and families. The very wealthy and privileged don't have those, so you need to find ways to create them without feigning poverty (obnoxious, insulting, will backfire) or giving you kid a personality disorder (real risk). Focusing on charity and volunteer work as a familial duty and calling is a good way to do that.

This is also how British Royals handle a similar problem, and you can see how the people who embrace that calling tend to do better as people (mentally, in relationships, etc.) than those who don't. A lot of the dysfunction in that family is due to people who don't know what to do with their privilege.

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The Kennedys aren't exactly a clan you should hope you kids emulate [/quote]

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