Raising Children Into Wealth - Hungry, Productive and Compassionate

成功养育孩子的三要素：求知欲、执行力和同情心

© August 1, 2018 by Pierre duPont, Partner, HPM Partners, LLC

I wrote the bulk of this article several days ago, and I sent it around to a few of my friends, both those in the parent category and those in the grown-child category. Many comments came back which I have incorporated below, but one suggestion came from several reviewers: state right up front the key learnings and guidance from the longer article. Therefore: 几天前，我撰写完了这篇文章的大部分内容。然后，我将它发送给了我的一些朋友，包括父母类和成年子女类的朋友。我收到了很多良好的评论并将其总结到本文中。很多朋友都提到了一个建议：开门见山地指出这篇文章的关键学习要点和指引。因此：

• Raising children with a healthy perspective on family wealth is an ongoing process of engagement and bi-directional participation, and not a one-off, check-the-box, we-are-now-finished conversation. Be aware of the need to do this throughout the child-rearing phases of your family life, and even beyond into your children's adulthood. 以健康的家庭财富观点培养孩子是一个持续的参与和双向参与的过程，而不是一次性的、一揽子检查或者我们现在已经完成的对话。 要意识到在整个家庭生活的育儿阶段甚至直到孩子成年期都需要这样做。
• Maybe the most important points in this article come down to one simple approach: lead by example and help your children to see and experience how to live appropriately with what they are being given and what they have earned, as much as you tell them. 本文中最重要的一点归结为一个简单的方法：以身作则，帮助您的孩子看到并体验如何用他们获得的和争取到的条件舒适地生活，就像你告诉他们一样。

This idea for this article started when a wealthy friend commented on how she wanted to ensure that her children were raised to be "hungry for living a productive life." Her concern was that the wealth she and her husband possessed might lead her children to feel entitled, to not work very hard in life, and to expect that everything will go their way. 这篇文章的这个想法来自于一位富有的朋友，她在谈论如何确保她的孩子被养成"渴望过上富裕的生活"。她担心的是，她和她丈夫所拥有的财富可能会让她的孩子感到优越感，在生活中不努力工作，并期望一切都会按照他们的意志进行。

And on exactly the same day, @Anand Sanwal, CEO and Co-Founder of CB Insights, whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting, sent me his regular daily newsletter* which included a discussion about the importance of 'hunger' as one of the four key attributes he seeks to find and nurture in his employees. 就在同一天，CB Insights的首席执行官兼联合创始人Anand Sanwal，我们没能够实现愉快的会面，他将其每日时讯发送给我，这篇时讯中探讨了求知欲在四个要素中的重要性，这四个要素是他在员工中发现并希望员工所具备的。

(* I subscribe to the free daily newsletter from www.cbinsights.com. Usually easy to read, always fact-filled and current, and often funny, I recommend that you subscribe by clicking here. And if enough people subscribe via that link, apparently I will get a free coffee mug. Cool.) (我订阅www.cbinsights.com上的免费每日时事通讯。 通常易于阅读，总是充满事实和当前，而且经常很有趣，我建议您点击这里订阅。 如果有足够的人通过该链接订阅，显然我会得到一个免费的咖啡杯。 凉。link)

Mere coincidence that they both mentioned 'hunger' on the same day, or something more? Not clear. In any case, the combination triggered a few thoughts about raising children into wealth. I will relate some of these below. 巧合的是他们在同一天都提到了"求知欲"知也许吧。无论如何，这种巧合引出了如何将孩子培养成富人的想法。接下来，我将详细介绍。

But first, I'd like to expand Mr. Sanwal's point about hunger being one of the "4 Hs" he looks for in successful people who work in his company - and in his words, hunger is the one he worries about most. His 4 Hs are:

• Humble
• Hungry
• Happy
• Helpful

首先，我想详述Sanwal先生的观点，即"求知欲"是他从其公司中做得比较优秀的人发现的4H要素之一。用他的话来说，"求知欲"是他最关注的。他的4H是指：谦虚、旺盛求知欲、快乐和乐于助人。

Mr. Sanwal goes on to provide some meanings for 'hunger' in the context of his employees, and I quote:

• "Ambition, resourcefulness, scrappiness, having a get-stuff-done attitude."
• "Hunger hates complacency. It is allergic to hubris."
• Being humble because "no matter how many nice things people say about us, we're still only 0.1% of the way towards what we could build." (For this article I would say 'could be' rather than 'could build.')

从他的员工来看，Sanwal先生进一步给出了关于"求知欲"的丰富内涵，我引述如下："野心、足智多谋、斗志旺盛、具有圆满完成工作的态度"、"求知欲与自满和傲慢格格不入"、"谦虚，因为"无论人们对我们说了多少好话，对于我们所要做的事情可能仅有0.1%的作用"（在这篇文章，我想说的是"可能"而不是"应当"）。

In my experience working with other people throughout my business career, his meanings are spot-on as essential characteristics to seek and to nurture in team members, and so too are those meanings important for raising children**. With full credit to Mr. Sanwal and CB Insights, I will borrow those meanings, and I will use what I've quoted above to get me started on what I write below about raising children to have healthy attitudes regarding money and work and society. (**I must give 99% of the credit to my wife for the successful child-rearing of our four. My feelings of inferiority in the parenting dimension may prevent me from even showing her this article.  :-) 根据我在整个商业生涯中与其他人合作的经验，他的观点是寻找和培养团队成员的这些基本特征，而这对于抚养孩子也是很重要的。完全归功于Sanwal先生和CB Insights，我将借用这些观点，并将使用我上面引用的内容来开始我下面的写作：培养孩子对金钱、工作和社会的健康态度。(我必须把99%的功劳归于我妻子，因为她成功抚养了我们四个孩子。我在为人父母方面的自卑感甚至可能使我无法向她展示这篇文章。)

The wealthy friend mentioned above added the word 'productive' which is also an appropriate adjective to describe how one might want one's children to turn out. That word is not perfect because productive people can sometimes not fully appreciate or acknowledge the other people in the world, especially those people who may be less productive or less fortunate. Therefore to balance, I want to add the word 'compassionate' to the characteristics a parent might strive to instill in his or her children to help them not be entitled or 'spoiled.' Thus we come back to my title: Hungry, Productive and Compassionate. 上面提到的那位富有的朋友加上了"执行力"这个词，这也是一个恰当的形容词，用来形容一个人可能想要自己的孩子变成什么样。这个词并不完美，因为具有执行力的人有时不能完全欣赏或承认世界上的其他人，尤其是那些可能执行力低下或不那么幸运的人。因此，为了平衡，我想把"富有同情心"一词加上。父母可能努力灌输给孩子们的特点，帮助他们不被惯坏或被宠坏。因此，我们回到了本篇的题目：求知欲、执行力和同情心。

Before I get into some of my thoughts on how to raise children who embody characteristics like hunger, productivity, and compassion, some important disclaimers: there is no 'right' way to raise children; there is no better guide than your own instincts; there is no value in comparing one child vs another; your situation and the exogenous factors influencing your family and your children's lives will be unique, thus warranting a unique approach to raising children; there is no perfect result; and there is no upbringing without challenges and problems and mistakes. 在我开始讨论如何培养孩子具有求知欲、执行力和同情心等特征之前，我先做一些重要的免责声明：养育孩子没有所谓'正确'的方法；没有比你自己的直觉更好的向导了；一个孩子与另一个孩子相比较没有价值；您的情况以及影响您的家庭和孩子生活的外在因素将是独一无二的，因此需要采用独特的方法抚养孩子；没有完美的结果；培养孩子的过程中充满挑战、问题和失误。

Not in any order of priority, here is a list of actions all parents can take which I believe will help to raise children who embody fewer of the less-desirable characteristics that are sometimes associated with wealth: 没有任何优先顺序，这是所有家长可以采取的行动清单。我相信，这将有助于帮助那些与如何变得富表现不太相符的孩子。

a. Starting when your children are young, talk openly and engagingly about money and the responsibilities that come with it. Listen and show respect for the questions your children may ask about money. Encourage them to be open with you and the rest of the family about money, especially regarding the things they hear in school and from friends. (Jane Beddall at www.dovetailresolutions.com said, talk with your children about money, not at them. And thank you, Jane for the first bullet point at the very start of this article.) 当你的孩子还小的时候，就公开地、积极地谈论金钱和随之而来的责任。倾听并尊重你的孩子可能会问的关于钱的问题。鼓励他们与你和其他家庭成员开诚布公地谈钱的问题，特别是关于他们在学校和朋友的谈话。(Jane Beddall在上谈到"与你的孩子谈论金钱，而不是他们"。谢谢你，简，在这篇文章的开头。)。(Jane Beddall在上谈到"与你的孩子谈论金钱，而不是他们"。谢谢你，简，在这篇文章的开头。)

b. Be open about the challenges that come with money, about expectations people may rightly or wrongly place upon you because of what you have (or what you don't have.) Educate about quality vs ostentatiousness. 敞开心扉迎接金钱带来的挑战，因为你拥有的东西(或者你没有的东西)，人们对你的期望可能是正确的或错误的，探讨金钱带来的品质与铺张浪费。

c. Give to your children a growing responsibility for money. Allowances can be good, and be sure to include objectives such as savings and charitable giving. Important also are learning about simple budgeting, and behaviors such as comparing prices and value while shopping, and saving for favorite or 'big' things. As they grow older, give them money for specific long-term purposes: help them put away money for college or for retirement or for difficult times. And definitely avoid too much 'just giving' your children money. As Andrea Kennedy said, 'hunger' will be ruined if you are always giving your children what they want. (Andrea at www.wiserwealth.net also said: "healthy discussions about money between parents are important, too", whether or not the children ever see those discussions. And she added this critical point: "Sometimes, parents are too controlling, too much wanting a child in their image and not allowing a child to find themselves, so the child spins out of control and does not understand their own agency in their life." This points to the importance of 'balance' as a parent interacts with children regarding wealth and adulthood and careers and handling money. 给你的孩子一个日益增长的金钱责任。定期发放生活费并确保储蓄和慈善捐赠等目标。同样重要的是学习简单的预算、培养习惯（如当购物时比较价格和价值）并为喜爱或"大"的东西存钱。随着年龄的增长，为特定的长期目的给他们钱：帮助他们为大学或退休或困难时期存钱。而且绝对不要过多地给孩子钱。正如Andrea Kennedy所说，如果你总是给孩子们他们想要的东西，那么将会损害"求知欲"。(安德列Kennedy在也谈到："与父母健康地探讨金钱健也是重要的"，无论孩子们是否注意到这些讨论。安德列补充了这一点："有时候，父母控制欲太强，太期望孩子按照自己期望的形象展示，而这让孩子找不到自己，所以孩子失控了，孩子不了解其在自己生活中的作用。"这就意味着"平衡"的重要性，因为父母与孩子在财富、成年、事业和金钱方面相互作用。)

d. Allow independence and give your child first small and later bigger opportunities to make decisions and mistakes and to have successes - and to build confidence while also learning when to ask for help and how to recover or learn lessons from the mistakes. Your mentoring will be a key role, particularly in the early stages of this 'independence.'允 许独立并为您的孩子提供一个小的以及随后更大的机会来做出决策、犯错误、获得成功并建立信心，同时学习何时寻求帮助以及如何从错误中恢复或吸取教训。特别是在"独立"的早期阶段，您的指导将发挥关键作用。

e. Also give your child opportunities to be a part of a team and to strive with others for group success; to help others grow and reach their potential; to learn first-hand that 'it takes a village' to achieve many things worth achieving. 也要让你的孩子成为团队中的一员，并与他人一起努力争取团体成功；帮助他人成长和发挥他们的潜能；亲身体验到"需要一个村庄"来实现许多值得实现的事情。

f. Show your child the importance of being active, even pro-active, of being positively engaged in his or her own life and in work and in the surrounding communities. A current friend of mine and a classmate from long ago, Brian, offered an African proverb to help express this point:

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle ... when the sun comes up, it's best to be running. 向孩子展示活跃性和积极主动的重要性，积极参与他或她自己的生活、工作和周围社区。我的一个朋友和很久以前的一个同学布瑞恩给了我这个非洲谚语来帮助表达这一点："在非洲，每天早晨，瞪羚都会醒来。它知道它必须跑得比最快的狮子快，否则它会被杀死。每天早晨，狮子醒来。它知道它必须比最慢的瞪羚跑得快，否则它会饿死。不管你是狮子还是瞪羚，当太阳升起时，最好是跑步。"

g. Engage your child in your charitable giving and community endeavors. Give them growing responsibility for portions of these efforts, especially as they go through their teen years when it may be appropriate to have them select a charity (and explain why) or analyze or meet with different charities. Mentor them in their charitable work with a hands-on approach, and lead by example including them in the local or community activities in which you participate. 让你的孩子参与慈善捐赠和社区活动。让他们在这些事件中承担越来越大的责任，特别是当在他们青少年时期，让他们选择慈善机构（并解释原因）或分析或会见不同的慈善机构可能是适当的。在他们的慈善工作中以实践的方式指导他们，以榜样为榜样，包括他们参与你参与的当地或社区活动。

h. Discuss from their earliest years how your wealth was created. Emphasize the hard work done by you (and by your ancestors, if you have inherited wealth), and by others; the good fortune that played a role at particular moments; the challenges the were overcome; the wrong turns that were taken; and the many other people that contributed to the success and to the wealth-creation. 从孩子小时候开始讨论你的财富是如何产生的。强调你（和你的祖先，如果你继承了财富）和其他人所做的艰苦工作；好运在特定的时刻起作用的；克服的挑战；所采取的错误的转变；以及许多其他为成功和财富创造做出贡献的人。

Most importantly, your children must see you living and being the way you want them to live and be when they are grown. This may have been best said by one of my friends describing someone else: "Because his parents (and grandparents) demonstrated through words and actions that they were hungry and productive, there just was no scenario where he'd be anything but." 最重要的是，你的孩子必须看到你的生活和你希望他们长大后的生活。这可能是我的一个朋友最好的描述："因为他的父母(和祖父母)通过言语和行动证明了他们的求知欲和执行力，他也不例外"。这是他唯一的出路。

I have often heard the adage "do what I say, not what I do"; all parents find themselves having to say that at some point, but the more you can be seen to do the things and to be the way you want your children to be when they are grown up, the more deeply they will get the important messages. 我经常听到一句谚语："做我所说的，而不是我做的"；所有的父母都发现自己必须在某个时候说，但是你越能被看到去做你希望孩子长大后所做的那些事情，他们就会得到更深刻的信息。

And show your children that life is not about the things in it but about the people in it and the individual moments lived and shared. Money can sometimes enhance those, but it cannot buy them. 告诉你的孩子，生活不是关于它里面的东西，而是关于生活中的人和生活中分享的个人时刻。金钱有时可以增强这些，但买不到。

Finally, I will leave you with this quote from Richard Armour, an American author and poet who lived 1906-1989: 最后，我将留给你一个来自美国作家和诗人Richard Armour的话，他生活在1906-1989年：

That money talks, I'll not deny, 

I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

有人说金钱万能，我不否认，

我曾听说过一次，它说"再见"。

It's doubtful Mr. Armour wrote that poem for wealthy parents, but it surely provides an appropriate and memorable message for anyone raising children into wealth.

Armour先生为有钱的父母写了这首诗是值得怀疑的，但它无疑为任何把孩子养大的孩子提供了一个恰当而令人难忘的信息。

-----Pierre duPont 皮埃尔.杜邦

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A big thank-you to Katherine Boas who provided valuable organizational and emphasis suggestions. 感谢Katherine Boas，他提供了宝贵的编撰和要点建议。

皮埃尔是初级和中级市场化公司的所有者、首席执行官和企业家的导师和顾问。在他的"日常工作"中，他还帮助客户处理个人和家庭财务问题，包括全球资产配置、投资组合管理、业务增长战略、企业融资和个人融资以及一系列私人银行业务。他与美国和亚洲的企业主和多代家族合作对企业的发展和传承提供建议-尤其从出生和还未出生的家族成员的角度综合考虑及整合，无论家族是否还拥有企业。

Pierre is a mentor and advisor to early-stage and middle-market company owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs. In his 'day-job' Pierre helps clients on their personal and family investments and financial matters including global asset allocation, portfolio management, private investing, business growth strategy, business and personal financing, charitable endeavors, and a wide range of private banking matters. He works with business owners (large and small) and multi-generational families (in the first generation or the Nth generation) in the United States and in Asia to plan for growth, family succession, and business succession, and wise stewardship of their wealth, whether that wealth is monetary or not- and especially to consider and integrate the perspectives of born and not-yet-born descendants.

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