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Her money comes to you think about how you want to raise your kids you want them to be grounded and giving, you want them to be

intellectually curious, you want them to be kind, you want them to be the opposite

of spoiled, which just happens to be the title of the best selling book by Ron Leiber,

who's also the Your Money columnist for the New York Times.

He's got some personal experience in this area as well. He and his wife

Jody Cantor you may also know from the New York Times are raising two daughters.

Ron, thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me.

So it's your first day back from paternity leave?

It is.

And, you know, before I bellyache about how I wish it was so much longer, I should say

how lucky I am to work for an employer that does offer paid

parental leave not just for the moms but for the dads too. So I got six weeks paid and then took a bunch of unpaid weeks to try and stretch it as long as I possibly could.

And your daughter is seven months old now?

Is that what you said?

Yes. Our youngest daughter, Violet, is seven months old now and our older daughter

Talia is ten. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. So when you look at the

universe of parents, give us a grade. How are we doing when it comes to teaching our kids about money?

I'd give us a B-minous, which is an improvement over where our parents were, I think think not to cast too much shade on the people who raised us but I think we grew up at a time you know those of us who grew up in the 60s or 70s or 80s grew up at a time when talking

about money was impolite it was impolitic it was considered age inappropriate

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