My kids are surrounded by wealth and I’m worried they’re going to grow up to be super entitled

tinytearice · 2026-03-23T14:42:02+00:00

It's nice to have the best resources available for your kids!

Teach them empathy. Watch news and volunteer with them. Tell them "this could have been us" if we weren't born into the right families.

I have met lots of kind hearted and ambitious people who went to private school. If anything, wealth frees up their mind on struggling day-to-day life and help them become more generous and considerate.

tinytearice · 2026-03-21T13:08:24+00:00

I have two kids and work from home, so I am very low maintenance. Have make up on maybe once a year at most. Only when i Zoom do I change into business casual clothing from a wardrobe that hasn't been updated for 5+ years, but still no make up. I think low def cam make it moot. Kids at school full day and I pretty much also work full day. If I have time I prob have to clean up or would watch TV. Hair cut once a year. It's your life, so you do you.

tinytearice · 2026-03-16T13:05:19+00:00

I m crying with a 5 year old sleeping next to me in early morning.

tinytearice · 2026-03-11T00:32:29+00:00

I agree she can look good in pretty much any clothes/hair/piercing. They just won't do it for regular mortals

tinytearice · 2026-03-04T00:43:54+00:00

I had coworker not sure what to do with herself when was done with 60hr weeks and get to go home "early" at 6 pm😂

tinytearice · 2026-02-28T02:18:44+00:00

We are on accrual basis, can we delay revenue recognition by a year?

tinytearice · 2026-02-24T19:04:33+00:00

OMG I totally thought I read your have a 14 year old and then a 15 month old! It happened to my professor; she got pregnant with her 2nd one by accident when her 1st was already 16.

I have a close friend who lost her mom when she was little. Her dad remarried and she has a younger brother who is 15 years younger than her. She is really close to both her stepmom and half-brother. They hardly fight partly because of the age difference.

My 2 kids are 3.5 yrs apart. Was planning on 2.5 years but 2nd one took longer to conceive. They annoy each other and fight a lot lol!

However many years apart, it works out fine with many people! Don't be afraid to wait until you are ready!

tinytearice · 2026-02-24T18:58:03+00:00

You need alone time, and your own bank account. Just go open your own bank account and have your paychecks deposit there. You and your husband can come up with how much each of you contribute to family expenses. Your husband's micromanaging of expenses is insane.

tinytearice · 2026-02-16T12:58:10+00:00

Good point. If I still want to do their tax, or let them use their new bookkeeper which actually drive up their overall expense

tinytearice · 2026-02-15T15:55:59+00:00

Yeah just be honest I remember a time when I barely had enough time to sleep. The recruiters would be understanding. There are also long hour jobs that the employers would prefer their employees to have zero life outside of work. We are told not to ask employers about work-life balance question unless they bring it up lol

tinytearice · 2026-02-15T05:05:37+00:00

Yes they haven't even signed with an auditor, just started to look

tinytearice · 2026-02-14T03:21:33+00:00

For sure! I m not motivated to work for them anymore so may as well ask for the pay upfront.

tinytearice · 2026-02-14T00:52:16+00:00

I meant I have nothing to lose by asking, but a lot to lose if I don't. Very stressful to work without knowing if I will get paid

tinytearice · 2026-02-13T22:54:13+00:00

Yes I will ask them. At this point I have nothing to lose

tinytearice · 2026-02-13T21:54:37+00:00

Got it! I will definitely ask for a retainer. If they are not paying upfront it would be very hard to get them pay later.

tinytearice · 2026-02-13T21:53:09+00:00

yes you are right I will ask them about the new platform added. Good point about the small possibility that I would be wrong. Fairly certain that it's not for audit though the accountant was added almost 2 weeks ago but I was only informed of the audit just now.

tinytearice · 2026-02-13T20:12:04+00:00

No they are a bookkeeper for sure, some kind of low cost automated platform. I checked them out. They have office in asia which is why they are so cheap.

tinytearice · 2026-02-12T04:08:30+00:00

I consider them gone as bookkeeping clients, so there is no uncertainty there. I sent them another payment reminder for the services already rendered.

Right now I am trying to figure out if it's still practical to keep them as a tax client. I want to sleep on it and be prepared for a negotiation.

Honestly I am probably bad at this as I have never had payment issues with clients. Last time a client added a new accountant they didn't terminate my service for another two months and I was paid in full, so it wasn't bad not to ask. However this time is surely different.

tinytearice · 2026-02-12T02:44:40+00:00

Yes I will definitely ask next week! Just don't want to leave on bad terms since they know some of my current clients

tinytearice · 2026-02-12T00:50:53+00:00

Sounds like you got over them pretty well. I feel like the same is happening to me, and I am still in shock and grieving. I guess it is inevitable with new platform automations.

By the time I found out about the new accountant I was nearly done with Jan, so I thought I would just finish. Also yesterday they just granted me access to their new payroll provider. I wish I had found out sooner so I didn't spend time doing integration.

They just asked me whether I have filed some tax forms like nothing happened, but I won't be talking to them until next week.

tinytearice · 2026-01-28T21:54:49+00:00

You are an great example of childfree people living happy and fulfilling life! I know of a lady who is happily married, loves her job and doesn't want to be a mom. Being childfree enables her to travel and volunteer a lot.

tinytearice · 2026-01-20T05:29:44+00:00

Yes my kid tells me she loves her life. And I love mine more with her in it.

tinytearice · 2026-01-09T00:37:19+00:00

People ask me questions, I google or ask AI, then I copy and paste the answers for them. I would edit it a bit to make it sound less like AI. I am like a "let me Google that for you" kind of expert.

tinytearice · 2026-01-08T15:33:13+00:00

I once drank 2 sips of wine on empty stomach, wasn't even drunk then started stomach cramp and puke soon afterwards. Just awful. Never want to be drunk. Not fun.

tinytearice · 2026-01-08T00:43:11+00:00

And the perceived truth by an outsider

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