Cleo McDowell telling his daughter he doesn't want her to endure poverty

like he did.

How many times have we seen good people (flawed as they may be due to the poverty enduring experience) raise spoiled and eventually rotten apples BECAUSE they shielded them from poverty and difficulties?

Don't they realize that they turned out good BECAUSE they suffered and learned to value hard work (whatever corners they may have cut, everybody does it in some way/shape/form especially if you're dirt poor) and learned the value of money (meaning they learned to save/invest/not spend the second you make it).

They clearly overcompensate their experience and in a good intended effort end up hurting their kids.