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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So DS#1 goes to USC and spends 90K while DS#2 has a full time job (playing a sport at a P5 school on an athletic scholarship is a full time  job) in addition to not spending a single dime from the family.  And yet, DCUM’ers are calling DS#2 a brat and entitled kid.  WTF!!![/quote]

Because kid #2 is acting like an entitled brat! Had he not gotten a sports scholarship, his parents would be paying fully for wherever he wanted to attend college.  It's not his money to declare he just gets since they are not spending it.  #2 is not talking to their sibling over this. THat's rude and entitled attitude.

Unless the parents specifically said "you have $x for college, anything you don't spend is yours" the kid is entitled.

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By not giving money to #2, you’re essentially telling him that hard work doesn’t matter and all of his hard work  in getting the athletic scholarship do not matter.  Yes, life is not fair but parents need to treat both kids evenly, especially with money.  If #2 wants to share that money with #1, that’s up to him, not the parents.  Of course,  it is the parents money and they can do whatever they want, but it is a two way relationship and #2 is within his right not to speak to his mother because of this.  [/quote]

Wow---wouldn't want to live in your life.  Where everything is about money and you are not capable of working hard unless you are rewarded monetarily.

If my kid stopped talking to me because I did not give them the rest of their "college fund" I would wonder where we had gone wrong raising such an entitled brat[/quote]

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