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How financial trauma gets passed to the next generation

I make my teenage kids split restaurant bills with me because I want them to understand money, but I think I am just passing on my own anxiety about never having enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-intentioned lessons carry the emotional residue of unhealed wounds, transmitting anxiety disguised as wisdom.

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