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How much struggle should you let your privileged children experience

I grew up poor and now I have money, but I can't decide if giving my kids everything I didn't have is loving or if it's depriving them of the resilience that poverty taught me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parents who've achieved upward mobility wrestle with whether comfort undermines character development.

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