It’s 2015 and I’m still paying off my son’s kindergarten private school tuition. He starts second grade next week. Like most people, I can look back on a childhood tragedy to understand why even at 30 — that magical age when you’re supposed to have your stuff together and never get low-balance alerts from Chase — my relationship with money is still so incredibly flawed.

I thought if I gave my kids “the best,” it would mean that I was good enough