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Originally posted by HardDrive
Your missing the point. The greatest material pleasures in life are those that you desire for a long time. You work towards a goal, and its sweet when you can finally get what you are after. It seems his parents are robbing him of this to a certain extent.
The other issue is his peers. Kids with fancy cars like that will have their groupies, but they will also earn the resentment of a number of their classmates.
Dunno. My wife and I do quite well, and I certainly won't have my kid driving a rust bucket when she turns 16. But she won't be driving a new Porsche either.
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Actually I think that's exactly the point Maslow had in mind. If you load up a 16 year old with new Porsches (or whatever) isn't it possible that you (from this one perspective) just shift the "desire bar" above things like new Porsches? So instead of having wet dreams about caymans you free his mind to desire more "lofty" things in life. Like writing novels or inventing something or captaining some business enterprise...
I'm pretty sure this is just one of those scale issues, but it can be pretty complex and confusing for parents. I'm with you - I wouldn't buy my kid a new Porsche, but I'm sure my kids have gotten lots of stuff that parents in "lesser economic conditions" would consider obscene indulgences.