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Grandparenthood Can Be Expensive!

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In Huffington Post article Boomers Give New Meaning To Spoiling The Grandkids author Linda Stern reported: “Roughly 36 percent of the grandparents surveyed by AARP said “spoiling (grand)children by buying them too much” was a part of a grandparent’s financial role.”. Boomers are becoming grandparents by the second.

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Unintended Consequences

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Don’t you hate politics! I do, which is why I wanted it out in the open as to what the budget allowed. If you give your kids everything they want, they will never have a burning need to fill and may never decide to DO something to GET what they want or need. How to mitigate the possibility of unintended consequences.