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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hintzyboy" data-source="post: 4814023" data-attributes="member: 566521">There isn't a magical way to raise a kid, no.  But I think those are all ways to make sure a kid won't end up feeling entitled to everything.  Worked for me anyway.  I think the big problem Flip is struggling with is that the lessons he (and many of the rest of us) learned as a kid were the product of necessity.  It is a difficult situation when you want your kid to be happy with a Honda when you could buy him a Maserati (just an example).I have grown up around kids who were raised the wrong way (lived in a tourist town where almost everyone's parents owned a hotel or water park or whatever).  I have seen first hand the effects that Flip is fearing.  I just think there are easier ways to avoid those effects than relegating your child to an 80-cents-a-day life.</blockquote>

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