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Our plan is to not let the kids know how much money we have. It obviously doesn't work if you are a billionare, but you can hide the first few million dollars l
by chrisBob 13y ago
Our plan is to not let the kids know how much money we have. It obviously doesn't work if you are a billionare, but you can hide the first few million dollars living in a decent house in the Carolinas as long as you don't feel the need to drive a Porsche.
I don't understand why anyone would want to raise an entitled brat.
- newaccountfool 13y agoUnless your kids are stupid then I don't see how that is going to work. They will realise.
- thefreeman 13y agoIt doesn't really matter if they realize. Just because they know you have money doesn't mean you have to spoil them with it.
- newaccountfool 13y agoI understand that, but the guys intentions where to hide it from them.
- chrisBob 13y agoIt is easy to tell how much money someone spends, but much harder to tell how much they make. Maybe it depends on the job. My parents' salaries are public record, but that isn't the case for most people.
- 398cn3erf 13y agoI had no idea that my parents were (moderately) wealthy until I had to fill out the financial aide application for colleges. They never talked about how much they made and gave us little money. I was the last to have a Gameboy among my friends and had the smallest allowance. It may also have helped that I had no interest in cars, so I didn't realize that driving BMW/Mercedes had any significance, and we had never stayed at a hotel that wasn't 5-stars so I just assumed all of them were like that.
- chrisBob 13y agoYou sound very sheltered, which I would also like to avoid.
- dagw 13y agoI don't understand why anyone would want to raise an entitled brat. No one wants to raise an entitled brat for the sake of it, it's just that raising an entitles brat is so much easier and less time consuming.
- bertil 13y ago> I don't understand why anyone would want to raise an entitled brat. Short term satisfaction is seemingly more gratifying, especially in someone visibly fragile, potentially loud and that you instinctively care deeply about.
- hnal943 13y agoBetter to teach them how to live then to hide the truth from them. I think that's true in any case.
- dragonwriter 13y agoWouldn't it be more effective to not conceal your income if you want kids that aren't entitled brats? Trying to conceal your income seems to acknowledge entitlement and conceal the resources subject to it rather than rejecting entitlement.