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by KMnO4 912 days ago
I don’t want to get into whether the ability to afford these things for your children makes you more/less of a good parent…

But if you can afford it, you absolutely should support their passions. The only reason I’m a high salaried software engineer is because my parents generously bought me a computer, allowed me to attend classes (programming in BASIC), etc.