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Simran Kaur

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856 total appearances

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Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

In saying that, I did have to kind of think about Emma Greed's perspective is going to come from her own childhood and her own experiences.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

And

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

As she said, she had a very, in her own words, like a hands-off mother who was there financially and provided support in terms of a home and food and shelter, but perhaps not the quality time or the one-on-one parent-child relationships.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

And I had the opposite experience just being like a child of Indian immigrant parents.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

My parents were helicopter parents.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

Every grade, every assignment, every like little change in my day, my parents were onto it.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

They would drop us off every day to school.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

They'd pick us up.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

They would ask questions.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

Any time that they could get involved, they were like involved 110%.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

Like I remember going to a Sikh like children's camp

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

And I would just turn around and my dad would just be there and I'd get like a jump scare.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

I'd be like, Jesus Christ, what are you doing here?

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

And so I can't imagine not being a very hands-on parent and I personally feel like I would want to be more focused on like pouring as much as I could into them and maybe that's not the right way of doing things.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

However, it is really nice to know that like maybe there is an overcomplicated way

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

culture that we've created and that maybe I won't feel mom guilt because I kind of have seen examples now and I can understand that the kids will be okay.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

But I mean, it's always so rich coming from someone that doesn't have kids, isn't it?

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

Like someone that's like, I'd do this if I had a child, you know, and fast forward, I just am like, look,

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

As long as they have, like, their T-shirt on on the top and shorts on on the bottom and their hair is, like, half brushed, that's good enough for me.

Friends That Invest
I Read Emma Grede’s Book So You Don’t Have To: 6 Takeaways

So God knows what will actually happen.