Only thing I can add is you want better for them, but without giving it to them. If they have not lived those times and only hear about it, its difficult to say whether they realize the reality of what you lived through, unless they too have dealt with adversity, (an over used word in my opinion but with truth).
You will learn something from your parents, some things are desirable, others are not, even that has value, you learn what not to be like.
I don't know how you get the same effect, unless they too live it, yet both, parent and siblings are better for it, as well as being much more intelligent, smarter or experienced. You lead by example, referencing things like stacking behind a baler, tie wire repairs, bitter cold sky garage, and try to instill in them, this is not smart, but you press on with what you have, make the best of it. Ideally, you hope for them, to be able to bypass hardship, minimize it, yet respect it, but you can't shelter them from it. If you can work in the worst conditions, then you'll prosper in better situations, knowing where you started or came from.
I don't think I'd want my kids if I had any, to know what its like to live in their truck, take care of daily hygiene in a public bathroom, live in a rooming house, not eat for 3 days because the power bill or this or that came first, due to the fact that the job just does not pay enough. I can remember walking miles to work, taking the bus, bad weather, sick as a dog, forging ahead. clearing a path with no help, you'll either sink or swim, I don't know if it was plain foolish to think I'm better for it, respect and appreciate things at a healthy level and not take things for granted. We all get into situations sooner or later, that if you cannot reckon with, it will eat you up, I don't think it has much value if a person falls apart from it, at that point misery has no value, just breeds hatred, potentially violence or an assortment of problems, hard to say how any given person will react, at that juncture I think education and making better plans at an earlier age is more effective. I'd not want to see a kid I spent a life time raising, be put through so much that it ruins them, happens quite a bit.
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