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How to Not Financially Paralyze Your Children

There is an old saying: “The more you give your children, the more you take away.”

Today’s story began with an email from a hard-charging, financially very successful, real estate broker  named “Steve” and his wife, “Cindy,” a stay-at-home mom.

“Our personalities are quite different. Cindy is quiet and non-assertive, while I am the bull in a china shop,” Steve wrote, adding, “Our three children – ages 7, 19 and

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