Teaching What Matters
We want to teach our kids so many things we can often lose track of what matters. Have you ever heard the saying, “Guilt to parenthood is like grapes to wine”? Basically, no matter how hard we try, we will eventually be found guilty of not teaching them something. So don’t be too hard on yourself or your mother because to err is human.
Yes, parents are humans too! But I guess we have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that it is our responsibility as adults to teach ourselves what our parents didn’t. Learning nutrition and finances is complicated, and maybe your parents didn’t teach you because they didn’t even know that themselves. In order to break the cycle of financial and nutritional ignorance, we need to accept we will have to learn it ourselves.