4.
The man from Hollywood is not the first
person to have had this revelation. It is
something, I think, that most of us
understand intuitively. There is an
important principle that guides our
thinking about the relationship between
parenting and money—and that principle
is that more is not always better.
It is hard to be a good parent if you
have too little money. That much is
obvious. Poverty is exhausting and
stressful. If you have to work two jobs to
make ends meet, it’s hard to have the
energy in the evening to read to your
children before they go to bed. If you are