Teaching him to be Rich!
“Don’t worry Sarthak”, I responded to him with a deep thought. I then got engrossed thinking and came out with a smile.
“The fact that you have asked me question Beta, itself gives me enough confidence that you will never die poor”, I replied extending the smile I wore a moment back. Honestly, I haven’t observed such thoughtfulness in the Gen-alpha kids before. Sarthak sometimes leaves me intrigued and surprised.
I always thought, when you come from nothing, you want to
give your kids everything. Then you realize that giving them everything,
teaches them nothing.Once I took him to a fun-fair and asked him to pick a toy of his choice. We both walked to every other counter, and I kept walking behind him in the hope that he will pick one. Being a kid, it was not unusual for me to see an affinity to toys for him. But that day, he did not select any of toys.
“I don’t want any of them”, he declared.
A week later, I saw him sitting quiet in the drawing room at 10 PM in the night. I read his face and tried to enquire about his reticence. He did not speak and I kept probing.
“That fair we visited last week… Papa, there was a toy that I…”, he fumbled.
“Did you like that toy? How did it look like?”, I asked.
“It was like a key chain Papa… and it had a beautiful…”, he kept describing it to me.
“Wow! Sarthak, then why didn’t you tell me you wanted to have it the very same day?”, I asked again.
“I was not sure if it was expensive for us…”, he said with a grim look.
Flabbergasted with his answer, I couldn’t resist giving him
a long hug.
Teaching your kids the idea of richness is difficult. Richness is not about compromising on your needs or dreams. Being rich is cultivation of a good character, a habit of investing consistently – into self improvement and elevating your personality. Because in today’s world we see popular millionaires who are so poor that all they have is money.
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