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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Places I have not stepped foot in months -- a grocery store, a gas station or a dry cleaners. All the things that I need from these places are taking care of by someone else, without my ever even really thinking about them. It's like food is in the pantry and gas is in the tank and clean clothes are in my closet just magically without my ever having to think about it. But I do appreciate it greatly. [/quote]

That just sounds like the life of a child to me.[/quote]

What I'm paying for is my time. I work very hard and earn and good salary, so I am fortunate to be able to pay someone to do all of that. Then when I am home, I am able to spend my time with my family instead of running around crazy doing errands I don't enjoy. What is childish about that?  [/quote]

What struck me about it was that I have been teaching my kids for years to clear their own plate from the table, make and pack their own lunch, be responsible for their things, and do their own laundry. It seems like a step back in terms of personal responsibility to never do any of those things. It just seems infantilizing to me. If your cleaning lady and cook go on vacation, do you just get take-out and let the laundry pile up? If you spill something, do you clean it or wait for the maid to do it?[/quote]

Understand what you are saying, and I occasionally struggle with this, however.....while our kids do clean their plate, clean their rooms, etc, etc - the reality is that we aren't doing the landscaping on our 2+ acre lot by ourselves, and we aren't doing a lot of the tasks listed above because we don't have to and would rather spend our time doing the things we want to do.

At the same time, we will make sure that our kids understand that what we have is a hard earned privilege, which we achieved without family help and earned on our own and that we expect the same from them.    The reality is that when the time is right, they will have a bunch of money to make their life much easier down the road, but not until a work ethic is forged and they aren't going to know how much until they are able to handle that responsibility.   We might, for instance, make them take out student loans and feel the pressure of paying for an education, even though we are able to pay them off and have the money saved.   They will definitely have jobs to earn their own money in high school and college, etc.  We realize the importance of a work ethic in what we have achieved and despite our luxuries, I still think we will be able to get them in the right frame of mind, even if there are second generation challenges as well as challenges with friends and environment that come with money.

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