gnotknormal:

kinsusdreamer:

celticpyro:

mylifeisroosterteeth:

you know what you shouldnt do? constantly tell your child how expensive they are to take care of. because eventually, that child gets scared of asking for money, and doesnt feed themself at school, doesnt go places with their friends that require money, because they dont want to be expensive. it really does get into their minds, that theyre too much money and that they shouldnt do anything.

Bonus: don’t spoil your child out of guilt and then tell them how expensive spoiling them is and how “unappreciative” they are because that will mess them up mentally too.

Extra bonus: when you wear a chunky diamond ring every day, don’t make your child pay for their backpack for school because you thought it was ugly- give a shit about your kids and their interests instead of knocking them down

People are worth more than money.

This really fucked me up as a kid. My mum gave me £10 for lunch a week at school. That’s £2 a day. A meal cost £3.50 at least, without a drink. I would usually settle on a drink and 3 or 4 days a sandwich. I couldn’t ask for any more money because I was shouted at that we didn’t have money while my mum puffed through £40 worth of cigarettes a day. By the time I went to college and got money from the government it was £30 a week. After bus fare it was £13. I remember buying maybe only one or two lunches at college. The money I had went on shoes and clothes and college supplies.

So seriously if you all ever have kids listen to the OP.

It’s okay to teach children the value of money, saying we can’t afford chocolate or let’s get this thing instead of this because it’s better value. But DO NOT teach them that the value of money has ANY RELATION to the value of them as a person. Because it doesn’t. And as their parent there should be no-one in the whole world who knows that better than you.