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Is your children biggest fear having to support you ?
Posted by elitethinker • 5/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: children, money
By Suzan Norman
biz.yahoo.com/pfg/e37children/
"I will never forget the time I sat down with a class of eight- and nine-year-olds and asked them what their greatest fear was. I didn’t even say money fear—just plain old fear. One of the children stepped right up and flatly told me her biggest fear was that she would end up having to support her parents. I was of course stunned by this and asked why she felt that way. She said she constantly heard her parents arguing at night and her mother telling her father things like, “If you don’t stop buying all those expensive electronic gadgets we are going to end up in the poor house. And then who will support us?” But what truly scared me was when I asked the other kids if anybody else felt like this, nearly every one of them seemed to have a similar story."
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you know some deep children. Brilliant 5 yr olds and worried 9 yr olds.
my children's biggest fears right now are keeping their jobs long term and for one son supporting his daughter while her Mother's in school.-
Well worrying about our children is normal behavior. The worry from children are well ... worrisome because it means this society is really in crisis.
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Absolutely not. My biggest fear as a kid was my mother dying. My daughter's is not being able to have the kind of life she thinks she wants.-
You didn't live at time of crisis like now.
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When I was born my parents had just passed through the Great Depression. And the first thing my mother taught me, was never to worry about money.
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My Father took a different lesson from the depression. He still worries about money.
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My mother told me the Depression taught her to be a good neighbor.
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