As the saying goes, it is not more than three generations to be rich.
However, there is such a family that has not faded for generations, generations of talents. This family is the Rockefeller family of the "oil king".
The Rockefeller family attaches great importance to cultivating children's family style and family training as the norm of children's lives, perhaps this is the secret of their generations.
Zhang Laiyi mentioned in the book "The Legend of the World's Richest Man" that Rockefeller's ancestors were French, immigrated to the United States, and gradually developed from a farmer with only some farmland in his hometown to one of the richest people in the United States, relying on his wise struggle and struggle.
His son Rockefeller Jr. continued to work with wisdom and became the first billionaire in the United States to own $1 billion.
Rockefeller Jr.'s 5 sons also became talented.
The eldest son, Johnson, graduated from Princeton University and worked in philanthropy after graduation, serving as a director of more than 30 charitable organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation General Education Committee, and the founder of the World Planned Parenthood Movement.
His second son, Nelson, a graduate of Dartmouth College, was born with the sensitivity and strategy of a statesman, and in 1974 he was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States.
The third son, Lawrence, is the most famous aviation industry giant in the United States and an arms dealer.
The fourth son, Winthrop, graduated from Yale University and founded Winlock Enterprises, a company that runs plastic pipe manufacturing, real estate and agriculture. He was elected governor of Arkansas in 1967.
The fifth son, David, who graduated from Harvard University, is one of the financial hegemons of the United States with more than 35 billion assets and was once considered the most powerful person after the president of the United States.
Some people are born rich, and some people are born poor, in fact, this does not determine the rich and poor of this person's life, and whether this person's life is brilliant or not depends on rational struggle and struggle. However, whether this person can have a rational spirit of struggle and struggle lies in the family style and family education he received in his early years.
The Rockefeller family has not faded for generations, what kind of family style and family education do they have?
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Strict requirements, thrifty and not spoiled
Rockefeller's mother came from a kulak family and was a devout Christian. She is industrious and frugal, very strict with the education of her children, and never spoils. Her virtues and beliefs profoundly influenced him throughout his life.
Rockefeller's wife, Shedy, was also very strict with her children, and she applied Rockefeller's meticulous spirit in running the company to family management. Children are required not to play cards at home, not to eat hot meals on Sundays, and to behave steadily and generously on weekdays.
Rockefeller Jr., as the heir to a vast fortune unparalleled in the world, was not coddled in his childhood.
Although he was rich and invincible, Rockefeller did not let his children enjoy the facilities and conditions of the billionaire family, did not build them swimming pools and tennis courts, and his children could only play simple games, hiking, logging or riding horses with their parents.
Because they are well aware that:
The reason why the children of the rich family are confused is because he does not have to worry about earning money and making a living, fighting for his professional career, and spending all day in fine clothes and food, Qin Lou Chu Xie, and in the end he has repeatedly done nothing and achieved nothing.
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Pay attention to the inheritance of family style and family training, as a guide for life beliefs and actions
The Rockefellers attach great importance to the inheritance of family style and family training, and they have a thick family motto, which is their family style family training.
When children first learn to write, they are asked to copy the Rockefeller family motto over and over again and ask them to do things according to the words above. For example: "The one who can restrain himself is the greatest victor", "does not smoke", "does not drink alcohol", "does not derelict the gods"...
When Little Rockefeller was less than 10 years old, he attended the Children's Prohibition Conference at the instigation of his grandmother, and vowed not to smoke, drink, or derelict for the rest of his life...
Rockefeller Jr. spent as much time as possible teaching his children, reading and reading family mottos to his children, so that they knew what to do and what not to do, and to correct the inappropriate words and deeds of his children step by step.
Rockefeller Jr. and his sons and daughters guided their actions according to the ever-improving family motto.
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Instilling the idea of "money" from an early age
The Rockefeller family, when the children were just 7 years old, began to instill in them the concept of "money", prepared a small ledger for them, and solemnly said to them: "The Rockefeller family's huge property is entrusted to us by God, so we must use it carefully and carefully, and we must not spend money indiscriminately." The ledger is the housekeeper. He also asked them to record the total amount of pocket money in the books, and the use and time of every penny, even the account of buying a candy, had to be recorded in the books. And at any time random inspection, found that who missed an account, you will be fined, the record is correct to give appropriate bonuses.
Children are given very little pocket money each week, and are required to spend, save, and give alms. This is mainly for
Keep them under constant financial pressure, let them understand the value of money, and spend it for good, without spoiling it and spending it indiscriminately.
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Guide children to earn money through labor
Parents often talk about business in front of their children.
Children find that they don't get much money from their parents, and the only way to do that is to earn money by working.
Parents guide their children to earn pocket money by working at a very young age. If you shoot 100 flies, you can get 1 dime, catch 1 mouse for 5 cents, hoe the ground, pull grass, carry firewood, help your family mend clothes, polish shoes, cook rice, etc. can earn money.
At the age of 7, Rockefeller knew how to raise turkeys and sell them for money, and he also knew how to lend money to farmers who cultivated the crops and then recoup them with profit.
Rockefeller Jr.'s sons also knew how to earn money at an early age. When his third son, Lawrence, was 7 years old, and his second son, Nelson, was 9 years old, he was able to earn pocket money for the whole family's shoe shine: they got up at 6 a.m. and started shining shoes, polishing a pair of shoes for 5 cents and a pair of boots for 1 dime.
One year, the sons of Rockefeller Jr. founded a vegetable garden together in Pocanti Colón, and they grew zucchini, pumpkin, cucumber and other vegetables, and achieved a great harvest. Rockefeller Jr. grinned and bought his 6-year-old son, Winthrop, the cucumber he grew at market prices, while the other children pushed their harvested vegetables to the market on carts and sold them to the local grocery store.
The Rockefeller family's strict family discipline and effective education laid a good foundation for the children's later lives and careers.
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epilogue
Some families, too doting on children, reluctant to children suffer, everything is done, always think that many things children will know how to do when they grow up, in fact, this is harming children, want children to become talented, need to start from an early age.
The family style tutor founded by the successful person is to summarize the gains and losses of countless families in the past life, form a unique magic weapon suitable for the reality of their own family, which can lead a family to glory and realize the revitalization and development of the family. In order to make the family style and family training successfully inherited, it is necessary to work together from generation to generation and strictly grasp the implementation one by one.
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