Is your house paid off? Are your cars paid off? Are you paying out over 1,300 dollars a month just for health insurance for your family? 1,500 a month mortgage, 1,000 a month for the two vehicles need to keep jobs and shuttle kids? Or 1,000 dollars a month for daycare on two? Food for six?
You have wrongfully automatically assumed they are wasteful spenders and not responsible with their finances. They are very frugal and practical and still barely getting by every month. If one parent quit their job they would have to give up everything and go on welfare.
Our conversation has gone off the rails. I’m not judging your children. I intended to share my experience and my belief that kids are better off without smart phones. I then expressed my opinion that it isn’t always necessary to resign ourselves to what we perceive as the zeitgeist of the times. No offense offered. Only a living thing can swim against the current.