When my daughter told me about the girl in her class who bragged nonstop about money, I could see the mixture of confusion and annoyance on her face. Kids don\u2019t always understand the weight of material things, but they recognize arrogance when they hear it. She said the girl claimed to have more, to be better, to live a life sparkling with wealth \u2014 as if numbers in a bank account could measure a person\u2019s worth. For a moment, I worried those words might make her feel small, like what we had wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then she told me her reply: \u201cIt\u2019s good, because I\u2019m already rich in love and friends \u2014 and those don\u2019t run out.\u201d<\/em> I nearly melted. She didn\u2019t need me to teach her the difference between being wealthy and being fulfilled; she already knew. In that moment, I realized the values we planted had grown quietly and beautifully. We may not have the biggest house or the fanciest vacations, but we\u2019re raising a child who understands true abundance \u2014 and that makes us richer than anything money could buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my daughter told me about the girl in her class who bragged nonstop about money, I could see the mixture of confusion and annoyance on her… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":438,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17063,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17059\/revisions\/17063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}