> If you can put a roof over their head, feed, cloth, and love them and give them a mostly constant home environment you're doing your job as a parent See - th

> If you can put a roof over their head, feed, cloth, and love them and give them a mostly constant home environment you're doing your job as a parent See - that's the thing. Lots of us can't commit to that because we're still securing the consistency of those resources for ourselves. All I'm saying is I don't agree with "I'm way too preoccupied" when I see the following grocery list as a very tall order for most people starting off today. > Kids are sensitive to their social conditions but oblivious to their material situation until they've entered preadolescence. As someone who grew up in a family with even mild struggles... yeah this just doesn't hold up. Lots of kids know as early as when they enter school. You notice the gaps between you and your peers almost immediately and often will have peers point it out to you because the poor kid is easy to pick on. You wear different clothes (second hand/etc), you probably struggle a bit with school, you don't have the cool video game system, you don't get to do the cool stuff other kids do... etc etc. Kids notice way earlier than preadolescence.