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

My child self would probably think we’re loaded. I’d also honestly probably not want my child to play with my childhood self.
We were borderline neglected by today’s standards and pretty much feral. Riding our bikes to the beach and playing in the woods outside from sunup to sundown at like 8 years old. Parents had zero clue where we were most of the time. My kid wouldn’t know wtf to do lmao.

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

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yes, very much so.

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I would be blown away by their tiny battery-powered computer with no external keyboard that doubles as a phone and has this thing called “internet”.

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There was a guy on a show called Quantum Leap that had a device like this, and I used to think how cool it would be to have something like that.

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

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It's not that I wouldn't let my kid hang around my child self, but we definitely would never intersect. My kid doesn't hang around in the same crowds that I did as a child.

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I wouldn’t let my kids hangout with my child self.

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Same here. I was a Problem Child for sure

I would def think my kids were rich. Just knowing they were going to private schools would be enough to make me think that, but they are living a great life. Much better than I did.
Their friends are the real rich ones though for the most part.

Ehh, not rich. Middle class. I grew up way too comfortably thanks to my father's work. My kids have a great life, but not the life I had, which these days is orders of magnitude more expensive than when I was growing up. Skiing every year, international trips, full time housekeeper, etc. Those things on a relative basis are wildly more expensive than during my childhood.

Very much so.

So you didn’t do better than your parents even though you had all of those advantages?

Had I had just basic parenting, I would be a fricking mogul.

My kid lives a very privileged life, and I’m proud I could do that for her. She needs to move the ball forward and exceed anything I’ve done.

She has the ability and drive to do it.

I thought everyone who lived in a brick house was rich. But I also thought rich people were more likely than me to burn in hell (camel through the eye of a needle and all that).