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[quote=Anonymous]I think it is really difficult when you’re surrounded by so much privilege and many parents do provide so much luxury.

I cut allowance off at age 10. My older kids were able to do things like Mother’s helper work and weeding, etc. but that’s pretty dried up now. For the younger ones, I mostly had to provide the earning opportunities until they got to be 13. They still had regular chores but I paid for extra jobs. I didn’t have many restrictions on how they spent it, but I did require accounting. Some were very creative and industrious and eventually started little businesses.

I involved them in volunteerism at the earliest ages, and tried to model deriving fulfillment from giving and from non-material things. For the most part it worked.

One of my AC is obsessed with money/things, they do not care who they hurt to get it, and the easier it comes, the better. Would this have been different if we lived in less affluent places? Could I have parented that differently? I suppose the answer is IDK. I think our DCs come with certain traits, and our parenting can accomplish a lot. But sometimes nothing you do will make a difference.

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