As a parent, your priority number one is to raise independent adults. Period.

Now:
How about raising "financially independent adults"?

Read on to learn 10 lessons about how you can raise financially independent children:

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1. Let them get a bad grade

Is getting a bad grade a good or a bad thing? Is losing money at the stock market a bad thing? It depends on what you learn from these lessons!

“When you fail, learn from it. There’s nothing wrong with trying again.”
2. Let them forget their homework, their stuff for gym class, their snack box

The more we help, the more we actually teach them that they can’t manage without parental supervision. This is not encouraging. Hands off from now on!

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This is NONSENSE. The people who take photos with their books on instagram are known to be voracious readers who graciously take time to review books and recommend them to their followers. Part of their medium is to take elaborate, beautiful photos of books. Die mad, Guardian.


THEY DO READ THEM, YOU JUDGY, RACOON-PICKED TRASH BIN


If you come for Bookstagram, i will fight you.

In appreciation, here are some of my favourite bookstagrams of my books: (photos by lit_nerd37, mybookacademy, bookswrotemystory, and scorpio_books)