Biggest Mistakes Parents Make - Here's Another one - Giving Teens Too Much Money and Too Much Free Time

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  The other day I was walking around the streets of Berkeley. I'm back after a 14 year absence. Now that I am older and wiser, and have my Doctorate in Psychology, together with 20 years of coaching and counseling, I am now seeing things with fresh eyes.

Anyway, it was a nice Bay Area morning. Fog burning off and sunshine coming out. I observed two high school students with nice clothes. These two dudes had expensive basketball shoes, 3/4 length jeans, expensive shirts, nice new hoodies, and expensive caps. Not too mention really nice backpacks.

Their pants were hanging as low as possible so they were mimicking gang bangers. But these two were obviously -- by attire and by mannerisms - kids from middle, upper middle class, or upper class homes. They were sharing a marijuana cigarette.

I marvelled. Already ruined. Not by poverty, but by too much.

I buy my clothes at the thrift shop and my shoes when Big 5 has a sale. I carry my stuff in a black plastic computer bag that I have had for 15 years.

The parents or parent don't know or don't care. Or perhaps the parent or parents approve.

Have a nice day.

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