If your child self was friends with your kids would you think they were rich?

I was a dumb kid so whatever I thought was probably wrong and my opinion should have been ignored

Yes, I would have thought they were rich. I grew up very poor.

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Would you like them?

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Yes, I would, I always like sarcastic but nice kids.

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Would you like them?

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This is an intriguing question.

When I was 12 years old my Christmas presents came from my Boy Scout troop. I didn’t know we were poor but we were.

Yes, I’d think my daughter was rich.

Yes. My kids have way more than I did.

Yes. General middle class living standards have exploded in the last 20 years (even though everyone complaining about money would have you think otherwise).

My brother and were I raised by our widowed material grandmother Growing up I thought we were rich. I got pretty much anything I wanted. Christmas morning meant waking up to the living room full of Star Wars toys. We always wore nice clothes, had nice things, and took nice vacations.

As an adult though now I realize all that was because our grandmother, who was retired, received my late grandfather’s pension from US Steel plus social security checks for herself, me, and my bother. Along with this, she didn’t have a mortgage either.

But looking back, even though as a kid it didn’t occur to me at the time, all those Christmas mornings when my bother an I were opening presents, she be sitting in her recliner drinking coffee an watching us. Never once saw her open a present of her own. I remember going clothes shopping all the time. And while we always got whatever clothes we wanted, I never saw her buy a stitch of clothing for herself. The reason I thought we were rich was because she took the money she had and used it all on us kids.

I mean my child has two very nice homes, gets whatever he wants, travels and vacations all the time, so yea.

And I would have absolutely liked him. I'm not just biased because he is my child, but my son is one of the kindest kids and puts effort into being a good friend to everyone.

I wouldn't have let my kids hang around my child self.....