I'm not sure how to instill a sense of frugality without letting them go hungry for a while. Non-parent (I only rent them from friends and family) advice here:

I'm not sure how to instill a sense of frugality without letting them go hungry for a while. Non-parent (I only rent them from friends and family) advice here: Charitable work with the poor. Anything that gets them interacting with the less fortunate on a personal level, not just abstract stories from Dad about it was like when he was a kid, but stories from the people living them right now. You don't feel bad about depriving your kids, they learn some empathy for people with different life experiences and how lucky they are to be born into the right family and last but not least, in the process you help to make the world a better place.