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[speeing]

I wonder how much money parents should make to instill that lower-middle-class nonmaterialistic attitude into their children, but also to have enough to make their lives comfortable and money-trouble free.

Comments

[admiralakbar]

aren't you, uh, kind of taking the parenting aspect out of you know, parenting?

sure class has a lot to do with how a child is raised, but i'm pretty sure you have to try to instill values in them as well.

and so the answer is... it's flexible depending on how good of a parent you are?

[admiralakbar]

err or maybe i mean, what kind of a parent you are.

[awonderland]

I have to agree with Ahmed.

That being said, we both grew up spoiled, so you can make your judgments on that (Ahmed- Hope you don't take offense at that)

[awonderland]

In all reality, you can always have lots of money yourself and not really spend it on ridiculous things. Like if you're not obsessing about stuff and material goods and set realistic limits for you children about the difference between needs and wants, etc... then the amount of money in your bank account as a parent shouldn't really matter.

[darkteal]

It's called being really poor for a while, and then not being poor. A huge economic depression should do the trick.

[afromaster_jedi]

Another aspect would be the parents attitude "addict to drugs, etc." otherwise, the child get what the bare minimum would be.

[stachysaurusrex]

When I was much younger we had to go without cable tv for a while for financial reasons. I don't know... that really got through to me.