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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t ask this question on a rich parenting board, the parents here all think you’re downright abusive if you don’t spoil the crap out of your kids or that your kids will somehow become damaged if they have to go without.

[b]Not true, there are many poor families who spend practically nothing outside the bare necessities on their children and most turn out fine.[/b] There’s no reason why you need to sacrifice FIRE just because you had 2 kids especially if you front loaded wealth building and already have 7 figures by early 30’s. Private school and travel soccer are a HUGE f***ing waste of money and half those kids end up as useless drug addict trust fund babies by their late 20’s anyway. Just send them to state school, make them take out a bit of student loans, play rec league soccer. They don’t need more. [/quote]

Many of those families have parents working multiple jobs just to make ends meet. On the other hand, telling your kids that they can’t participate in activities and depriving them of opportunities and educational advantages simply so that you can quit working at 40 and sit around playing guitar is flat out selfish and makes you a bad parent.[/quote]

And sometimes people who are genuinely low-income are qualifying for reduced rates and subsidies that OP would not qualify for. [/quote]

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