The girl is too money conscious. Every kid needs to

learn basic personal money management skills, but not over focused on money(unless it's a passion).

BTW, recently i am reading this book "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much", very interesting, you might like it too.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/sendhil/scarcity

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

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• Agree! It goes to the wrong end. -princessonthepea- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 20:48:12

• well, the parents bear more responsibility -blackmatter- ♀ (141 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 20:59:45

• The subject is about money. And the family is in two due to the -weston- ♀ (61 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 20:54:42

• 这里的little只是指钱（物质）吧？ --百科-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 20:56:45

• no, anything people lack of, social life, time -blackmatter- ♀ (256 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 21:06:51

• 那父母的爱和时间呢？象这个女孩家多的是钱，少的是相处时间，那这个时间的缺损是好是坏？：） --百科-- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 23:09:25

• money and time are convertible. How to balance both -blackmatter- ♀ (432 bytes) () 05/23/2015 postreply 09:29:34

• 我觉得这个女孩不错啊。虽然家里有钱，但还是知道节俭。并且，理解父亲不能在家的苦衷， -N.- ♀ (104 bytes) () 05/22/2015 postreply 22:37:39

• 她的文章出彩处其实是她对爸爸的理解和爱上，而不是典型美国孩子会对这样的爸爸充满指责和怨恨。 -hiccupbaby- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/23/2015 postreply 05:19:15

• +1， 我读完挺感动的 -kitty_cat- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/23/2015 postreply 07:40:30

• +1 -JYYXHEN- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/23/2015 postreply 06:08:26