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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are reasonably well off, and your kid has basically always been given pretty much whatever she wanted and needed, and is used to a relatively high standard of living, it's harder for her to understand, because it's just her normal baseline.  I agree that you need to think about what you want her to "get"--do you want gratitude?  Do you want an appreciation of the work necessary to provide those things?  Do you want her to understand budgets?  [/quote]

The standard of living really is the hardest part for some kids who aren't trust-fun well off, and don't have strong math and money skills. When you are used to a certain kind of house and car, but your parents can't or won't buy you one of your own, and your actual salary doesn't come close to affording that, and no one every explained the peril v. need of credit before, some kids go into serious debt very quickly due to the little things ... eating out, coffee, high end grocery stores, clothing labels they can't afford, huge bar bills, etc.[/quote]

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