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When your parenting choices implicitly critique your own upbringing

My mom calls me spoiled for buying organic food for my kids when she raised me on whatever was cheapest, but I make different money than she did and I want to make different choices.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic mobility enables different parenting standards that inadvertently judge previous generations, creating defensive conflict within families.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and parenting — financial pressure and class?”

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