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When past financial trauma affects parenting decisions

My teenage daughter expects me to buy her designer clothes like her friends have but I grew up poor and cannot tell if I am being reasonable or traumatized

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your historical relationship with scarcity distorts your ability to evaluate present financial decisions involving your children

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and power — who controls resource flows?”

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