Bad Attitude Or Future Millionaire?

Are you going to be rich because of your kids?

See ya later, suckas.

I’d stick around and chat, but I need to start planning my retirement — THAT WILL BE FUNDED ENTIRELY BY MY CHILDREN. That’s right, no more ink slinging for me. Or at least not once my 3- and 6-year-old daughters are grown. As it turns out, kids with attitudes like mine will be making BANK when they’re adults. According to a new study in Development Psychology, bratty kids out-earn their better-behaved counterparts. I’m going to be rich!

The study of 745 people from Luxembourg started in the 1960s and spanned 40 years. Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Free University of Berlin looked at children starting at age 12.

They examined how behaviors in late childhood predicted “career” success in adulthood by exploring the influence of the parents’ income, plus “childhood intelligence and student characteristics and behaviors (inattentiveness, school entitlement, responsible student, sense of inferiority, impatience, pessimism, rule breaking and defiance of parental authority, and teacher-rated studiousness) on 2 important real-life outcomes (i.e., occupational success and income).”

What they found was that a child’s propensity to be a rule breaker, spurn parental authority, and act irresponsibly contributed to their affluence as an adult.

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