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Money Fights In Front of Kids | Scott Donnell

11 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Money Fights In Front of Kids | Scott Donnell" discussing the impact of parental arguments over money on children, featuring Scott Donnell. The conversation highlights how children develop negative perceptions of money and the potential for entitlement when parents try to compensate for their own childhood experiences.

What does that cause in a child? When they hear parents arguing over money and battling over.
Bills, they see money as an absolute firecracker for fights. It's immediate rejection of this idea of money. They have a negative connotation to it right away. And then when there is money involved, parents are buying the things for them. Every parent has this struggle. They think that, oh, yeah, I just want to take care of them. Like, let's go out, let's go on the trip. I want to buy this for you.
I want to give them what I didn't have.
That's right. I want to give them all the things I never had growing up. I want to give them all the opportunities I never had. I don't want them to. To deal with the crap I dealt with. That's what parents say, and it's out of love, but it's the fastest way to entitle them. Wow. See, we have an epidemic of entitlement, and parents don't realize it because it's coming from a place of love.