Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse Meakum and this is another episode of The Weinab Podcast

where we teach you four rules to help you stop them and paycheck to paycheck. Get out

of debt and save more money today. I got a question. Here we go. A little background

about us. I've enjoyed reading your book, listening to your podcast and reading your

Weinab blog posts. My hubby and I have always been pretty frugal and have tried to live

within our means. We've modeled and taught this to our kids, too. Good job. That was me

adding good job. Keep going with quote. We got more proactive about budgeting when I first

heard about your book a year and a half ago. Our kids are now teen and college age and

we are running into frustrations. There's the meat of the question. It's really discouraging

to see how to them to see how society quote rewards the responsible behavior. As an example,

my son worked for two years in high school, saving almost every penny for his freshman

year in college. That is so freaking awesome. I added that back to the quote because his

bank account was healthy at the end of the two years. He got very little aid. He saw

kids around and partying, going on vacations, buying stuff, and they got more aid. On the

one hand, my kids value what they have because they have skin in the game, but it's hard

for them to see people around them living outside of their means, racking up debt and living

better than we do. Quote, quote unquote, better than we do. I try to tell them there is a

stress to having debt, but the truth is there's also stress when you feel like you just

don't have enough. Any advice to how to contribute continued to be good stewards with our

their money when so many around them live so differently. They just feel like they get

quote punished by colleges and others for being responsible. Geez. That's like a trigger

thing for me. This triggers me. There is no such thing as something for nothing. It violates

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