some of the quote from that article I can relate to though I haven't read the whole thing.
Trevor Lawrence: ?School books wrapped in Xmas paper and newspaper?
Melany Mclean: ?Using newspaper for toilet paper?
Richard Kelty: ?We slept on the floor, grandma and grandpa too. The whole family?
Melany Mclean: ?Hiding from the landlord. Having no electricity because mum didn?t have the money to pay the bills.
Jen Fitch: ?You know you poor when you got nothing for your birthday. And hand me down clothes. you to share presents.?
newspaper and plastic bags are considered luxury items, no such thing as toilet paper, you use whatever available to clean yourself, water, paper, wraps etc...sleeping on the floor is normal, no electricity most of the time, no such thing as birthday, hand me down clothes you have one new pair of clothes when absolutely need it
Kids seem to find happiness anywhere they are as long as they have some love from a parent or parents.
+1 looking back it was poor but I don't feel poor at all as a kid, I always have loving parents and they tried to shield a lot that stuff from their kids and sacrificed much for us to have a better future ... they never admit it but we can observe.
using the same formular my parents use on me for my kids and they are wonderful, they do what they told, they listen and they know their parents dont say no just because they like to say no and appreciate what we done for them.
they do it for a reason, they do it so they can turn out to be a better person and by luck or by hard work my kids understand that, so our parenting tasks made much easier.
no fight, no talk back and they are into their teens, send them to public school and mix with the baddest and have no fear