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How childhood financial trauma affects the way you spend on your children

I grew up poor and now that we have money I can't stop buying my kids everything they want because I remember what it felt like to go without.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're trying to heal your own past deprivation through your children's abundance, which may be creating new problems.

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“Where Are You with Money and children — raising financially literate kids?”

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