Parent Guilt...when it comes to finances

MmeZeeZee
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:26:41 +0000

Don’t feel bad.

My children are still small, but when I see other small children being indulged, I assume it is for reasons I can’t see. For example, the child might have an anxiety disorder that the parent is working on, but which is still there. Or something. They also might be spoiled to the nines. We just don’t know. That doesn’t change the fact that the right thing for me to do, knowing my own children, is to let them grow up.

But yes, sometimes I see other four-year-olds with handheld game devices and my daughter is begging for one, but I tell her she wouldn’t be bored if she learned to read, and I feel a little hint of guilt, wondering for a split second if I’m depriving her. Then I remember how everyone told my mom we were deprived because we didn’t have cable television, and I think of where those kids are now! I’m so glad she didn’t waste her money on that, and that we got to be independent adults at a young age.



Nothing worse than a kid who was born on third but who thinks he hit a triple.



This is a great way of putting it.