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1 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short personal reflection (YouTube video transcript) about childhood financial insecurity: the speaker recalls being raised by a single mother who struggled with money, reliance on a grandfather for financial support, early exposure to adult money problems (calls to credit card companies, low bank balances), and the speaker's sense that these experiences were not 'normal' for children.

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I was raised by a single mom I was always the one that was I guess probably more mature about money and finances than my mom she wasn't good with money no she was not good with money Some of my earlier memories are talking about money with her we were completely dependent on my grandfather he paid for everything in my life or it was like talking about child support we don't have enough money or there's $5 in the bank account right now after I paid rent that kind of thing so it was like me trying to just be smaller so that she wouldn't be stressed about money and I see that happening with us and what about now looking back on that that 8910 year old what do you think I would have to explain like listening to your mom call credit card companies is not something that other kids have to deal with I wish I could tell her that it wasn't normal what I was going. To.