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Reddit mentions of The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
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- HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
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| Release date | February 2016 |
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If you haven’t seen my other comment that got drowned, this book is AMAZING:
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062247026/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DCE2DbPTSHSAD
it's difficult with kids - how old are they? There's an emotional development that may or may not have happened to facilitate based on the answer to that question.
You might want to start here: The Opposite of Spoiled it's a great book on teaching money responsibility.
From the description:
>In the spirit of Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Nurture Shock, New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents raise modest, patient, grounded young adults who are financially wise beyond their years.
>For Ron Lieber, a personal finance columnist and father, good parenting means talking about money with our kids. Children are hyper-aware of money, and they have scores of questions about its nuances. But when parents shy away from the topic, they lose a tremendous opportunity—not just to model the basic financial behaviors that are increasingly important for young adults but also to imprint lessons about what the family truly values.
Our daughter is too young to apply most of this, but it was a really great read and I wish it had been around when I was a kid. I feel like with this type of groundwork, it more easily answers the question " mom/dad are we poor? Our hour house is so empty and I went to sally's house and she's got tons of toys and games and her dad has....."
You could give this a try, it's pretty good: https://www.amazon.com/Opposite-Spoiled-Raising-Grounded-Generous/dp/0062247026
On the nature versus nurture front, I wish someone had told me what an all encompassing powerful force nature actually is during the newborn time...
I thought this book was a good read.
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062247026