As a teen I babysat for a few neighborhood families. This was big because we lived in the smallest house on the edge of a very wealthy development. The families I sat for were rich in a way I didn’t understand - tvs in every room including the bathroom! Carpeting so deep you wade through it! The parents had brick-like cellphones, the fir…
As a teen I babysat for a few neighborhood families. This was big because we lived in the smallest house on the edge of a very wealthy development. The families I sat for were rich in a way I didn’t understand - tvs in every room including the bathroom! Carpeting so deep you wade through it! The parents had brick-like cellphones, the first I’d ever seen!
And the kids…were kids. Who were so desperate for attention that they had so much fun with just paper and crayons or messing with the leaves outside (before the gardeners could get to them). I learned for the first time how important parental attention was for kids and how money can’t help with giving time and love.
ooh wow yes as someone who was a babysitter for a couple families from the time kids were born/true babies up until a lot were pre-teens/teens, I throw my anecdotal samples 100% behind the idea that my 16 year old self knew whatever advanced psychologist/sociologists know about the relationship between attention and behavior/mental health/general wellness etc... and that more money often equaled less attention and more acting out. sigh!
As a teen I babysat for a few neighborhood families. This was big because we lived in the smallest house on the edge of a very wealthy development. The families I sat for were rich in a way I didn’t understand - tvs in every room including the bathroom! Carpeting so deep you wade through it! The parents had brick-like cellphones, the first I’d ever seen!
And the kids…were kids. Who were so desperate for attention that they had so much fun with just paper and crayons or messing with the leaves outside (before the gardeners could get to them). I learned for the first time how important parental attention was for kids and how money can’t help with giving time and love.
ooh wow yes as someone who was a babysitter for a couple families from the time kids were born/true babies up until a lot were pre-teens/teens, I throw my anecdotal samples 100% behind the idea that my 16 year old self knew whatever advanced psychologist/sociologists know about the relationship between attention and behavior/mental health/general wellness etc... and that more money often equaled less attention and more acting out. sigh!