"Little Aunt, although the old saying goes, 'Raise boys poor, raise girls rich,' raising them rich doesn't simply mean giving them money. You also have to find ways to broaden your daughter's horizons and strengthen her ability to live independently."
"When I went to Hong Kong and the United States, I saw children from some wealthy families. They were all very independent, and from a young age they were deliberately taught the concept of 'exchange of value.' They could only earn pocket money by doing housework."
"Although overseas cultural customs differ from ours, and I don't entirely agree with what those people do, some of their ideas are indeed worth learning from."
Li Ye pulled over a chair and sat down, patiently sorting through the "way of raising children" with his little aunt, Li Mingxiang.
In truth, he had not seen that many rich kids when he visited Hong Kong and the United States, but in his previous life, when he attended university and worked in various offices, he had seen plenty of children from wealthy families.
After observing them, Li Ye found that children from lottery-winner and demolition-compensation households were more likely to spend lavishly in daily life, constantly replace their luxury cars and girlfriends,
while the children of families that had built their fortunes through manufacturing and trade often "lived very hard." Even the few with relatively loose purses only had so much to spend. They were absolutely nothing like those "young masters of financial conglomerates" from television dramas and novels.
Girls might fare a little better. After all, girls were meant to be raised richly, and their families gave them more generous living expenses. But it was definitely not to the extent of clothes costing tens of thousands or bags all being luxury brands.
Many boys, meanwhile,