Don’t Handcuff Your Kids with Handouts

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

- Vincent van Gogh

We love our children, and we want to show it. Some of us show it by giving them lots of money, but the effects can be quite the opposite of our intentions. Instead of providing wings for them to fly, those funds handcuff them to the ground.

Not all gifts of money shackle our children. We can use gifts of money to stimulate responsibility. For example...