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Post by no1novice on Jul 14, 2022 19:06:31 GMT
Tom Brady: My wealth is the ‘hardest thing’ about parenting By Francesca Bacardi July 14, 2022 | 9:53am Tom Brady: My wealth is the ‘hardest thing’ about parenting Tom Brady thinks his and Gisele Bündchen’s wealth is the “hardest thing” about raising their children. “We have people that clean for us. We have people that make our food. We have people that drive us to the airport if we need that. … We get off a plane and there’s people waiting there for us and we get ushered in,” the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback said on a recent episode of Spotify’s “Drive” podcast. “That’s my kids’ reality, which is the hard part to say, ‘Guys, this is not the way reality really is. … What can we do about that?'” A split of Tom Brady with Gisele Bündchen and the couple with their kids. Tom Brady called his wealth the “hardest thing” about raising kids.  gisele/Instagram Brady, who reportedly has a net worth of $250 million, shares son Benjamin, 12, and daughter Vivian, 9, with Bündchen. He also co-parents son John “Jack,” 14, with ex Bridget Moynahan. The NFL star, 44, said he and the Brazilian supermodel, 41, try to make their kids relatable by creating “experiences that are more along the lines of what most kids go through,” but he admitted at the end of the day, his children will “still have experiences that a lot of kids never do have.” Brady said his and Bündchen’s humble beginnings have made them understand and appreciate their privilege. Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen with their kids on a football field. “We have people that clean for us. We have people that make our food,” the Buccaneers quarterback said on Spotify’s “Drive” podcast.  gisele/Instagram “My wife grew up in rural Brazil, the farthest state south, Rio Grande do Sul, very small kind of farming town, very simple girl,” he explained. “There are two bedrooms in their house — one for their parents and one for her and her five sisters. Advertisement “I grew up in, I would say, a middle-class family in California. My dad worked his ass off for our family,” he continued. “My mom stayed at home [and] took care of us kids, and I saw my mom work every day to make food for us at night and wash our clothes.” The Brady designer admitted that he has “screwed up a lot of things,” which he called “the reality of being a parent,” but he said he hopes that his kids realize the luxuries they experience are just treats. pagesix.com/2022/07/14/tom-brady-wealth-is-the-hardest-thing-about-parenting/ |
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Post by trixie on Jul 14, 2022 19:36:40 GMT
Watch out. When they grow up they won't know they have to put gas in the car or make a dinner reservation.
I get what he's saying but money doesn't mean you can't teach your kids to respect it and have to work to earn it.
The kid with Bridget is a lot cuter than the other two.
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Post by waterslide on Jul 14, 2022 21:42:02 GMT
I remember a story from the old board where a little boy starting school in Mississippi was put into the back of a police vehicle for the crime of not being in proper school uniform. His mother had blackened his shoes with a Sharpie ostensibly because they didn't have enough money to buy him black shoes. (edit - I never finished my point, but it's kind of obvious where I was going with it...)
The article comes off super obnoxious and tone deaf at first, especially when the hardest thing for a lot of parents is feeding and sheltering their kids and keeping them safe from all the bullets flying around this country, but I get what he's saying. His reality is different. But, give your kids chores, teach them life skills like sweeping and cooking and cleaning the toilet. Give them one of those kid debit cards with a finite amount of money on it so they know how to budget. Encourage reading. Fly commercial once in a while if you can. It really should not be hard. I do give him credit (ugh) for acknowledging that this isn't normal. Some celebs want their kids to think this is normal and that's when we get grown adults who don't know how to do simple things. See Britney.
I grew up middle class in an upper class suburb and some of the kids were complete spoiled terrors while the parents were so kind and laid back and you wondered how such nice people had such awful kids. And I think it was because the parents were the first generation of doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc. so they had grown up with far less so they felt they wanted to give their kids everything they didn't have.
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Post by albatross on Jul 14, 2022 22:49:19 GMT
I get what he's saying, but it still rubs me the wrong way. He may not be able to control how they are treated when they go places, but they're not the royal family, and they don't have to follow archaic rules and traditions. They have a choice about the kind of house they are going to live in. They don't have to live in a 30,000 sq foot house with people cooking and cleaning for them. They could live in a more modest home and do at least some of their own housework and give the kids chores. Just making different choices about their home life would go a long way toward creating “experiences that are more along the lines of what most kids go through".
Of course, it could just be my anger and bitterness over the fact that I didn't get a dime from the COVID stimulus because "I make too much money", but Tom Brady, a guy worth >$200M, got nearly $1M for his vitamin company.
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Post by Cartermrc on Jul 14, 2022 23:29:46 GMT
Coming into immense wealth and being insanely famous when you grew up modestly (like most of us) has it's problems. They could go with a simpler lifestyle with a smaller house, cooking their own meals, driving themselves around, etc., but there's security issues, kidnapping fears and so many other issues that us normal folk never have to think about.
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Post by waterslide on Jul 14, 2022 23:42:44 GMT
I get what he's saying, but it still rubs me the wrong way. He may not be able to control how they are treated when they go places, but they're not the royal family, and they don't have to follow archaic rules and traditions. They have a choice about the kind of house they are going to live in. They don't have to live in a 30,000 sq foot house with people cooking and cleaning for them. They could live in a more modest home and do at least some of their own housework and give the kids chores. Just making different choices about their home life would go a long way toward creating “experiences that are more along the lines of what most kids go through". Of course, it could just be my anger and bitterness over the fact that I didn't get a dime from the COVID stimulus because "I make too much money", but Tom Brady, a guy worth >$200M, got nearly $1M for his vitamin company. My middle names are anger, bitterness, and poverty, so I'm with you. It kills me to knock the chip off my shoulder sometimes. It's ridiculous to say it's "hard" to raise kids when you're rich, but he's not exactly a master communicator, either. |
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Post by angeli on Jul 15, 2022 2:31:09 GMT
The kid with Bridget is a lot cuter than the other two. His oldest son is the spitting image of Tom. He's going to look just like his dad when he's older. |
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Post by MsDark on Jul 15, 2022 3:09:34 GMT
The kid with Bridget is definitely cuter.
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Post by czb on Jul 15, 2022 16:14:03 GMT
i get what he's saying. and he may give his kids chores, who knows. i'm just taking it at face value that he realizes it is challenging to keep his kids grounded. *shrugs*
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Post by greysfang on Jul 15, 2022 16:26:16 GMT
The kid with Bridget is definitely cuter. Markedly better looking than Jizz-elle's kids. |
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Post by loftybike on Jul 15, 2022 18:16:42 GMT
Bridget is definitivly cuter than...
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Post by brookie on Jul 15, 2022 19:31:10 GMT
Aw you poor sad widdle billionaire.
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Post by chatterweb on Jul 17, 2022 7:49:41 GMT
Look at the fake pics. They look freaky and like they are all hiding something dark and evil. I am not seeing any joy from their souls.
Look at the way they touch their kids. It just seems awkward. The little girl looks afraid or nervous or scared in that 1 pic.
It is in her eyes the eyes are the window to the soul. JMO
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Post by sputnik on Jul 17, 2022 14:14:58 GMT
i think gisele's gorgeous but i know i'm in the minority on that.
i hate brady so it's easy to dismiss his comments as bs, especially his calling it the hardest part but i think at its core it's a valid concern. one of my best friends, who i grew up with and her family and mine are basically more like cousins than friends, married her high school bf who comes from money. not obscene money like brady but generations of old money and generations of never having to worry about it. her husband and his family aren't ostentatious about it, they're very hard working, they live very well but also pretty discreetly and without excess, but it's definitely a different mindset than what she and i grew up with. not that we didn't grow up with privilege but that's not the same as coming from a family where there is enough wealth that you don't actually HAVE to work for a living.
and she definitely worries that even with all her best efforts, her kids don't really fully grasp that their reality is nothing like that of 99% of people. and they're adorable, sweet, generous kids, not spoiled brats at all, but it's just a different way of viewing the world and i'm not sure she can really do anything about it short of them giving up the family money and having to work for a living and without the family wealth always there to protect them.
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Post by lindsaywhit on Jul 18, 2022 0:09:44 GMT
Gisele is stunning - gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. I get that she can be a bit insufferable - very much like Goop - but I'm shocked that people don't think she is beautiful.
I even think all the kids are gorgeous, and they look like pretty healthy, happy, kids to me. But then, what the hell do I know, lol.
The money thing is a real issue, and it's good that he is aware of it. Hopefully, they can strike a balance somehow.
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