Yup! You see it is still hard for my parents to not look at their situation and apply it to their children today.

Additionally they have the money to give to us. So if we were all spoiled and reliant upon my parents we would all just take the money and spend it.

I tell them I am saving through a 529 plan and their response is that they never used this and they paid for all of our schooling. My response is that if they paid to educate us then wouldn’t they be disappointed if I didn’t learn a thing or 2 that might make things easier in the future.

I came from an Irish family. The donkey is a tough beast to train.