I always kept accounts of income and expenditure. 

I have three children. I noted down how much the children cost for diapers, clothing, prams, cots, sports equipment and more. All was accurately recorded. 

I was inspired by Ernest Thompson Seton, born in 1860. When he turned 21 years old and came of age in 1881, he received a bill as a gift from his father. 

The father had carefully noted down in his account book all the expenses he had incurred for his son since he came into the world, including the bill for the actual birth, which took place in Canada and was paid for by the parents. According to his father, a man of legal age of 21 years was a man who did the right thing and accounted for himself. 

Ernest eventually became world-famous author of biographies of animals and it is said that he paid the bill without a murmur. 

One may wonder if Ernest felt guilty that he was born and had to pay for his own life from the first day he was born. Did he feel disgraced to have received such a bill?

Anyway - I removed the thought of ​​such bills from my mind at a very early stage

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I always kept accounts of income and expenditure. 

I have three children. I noted down how much the children cost for diapers, clothing, prams, cots, sports equipment and more. All was accurately recorded. 

I was inspired by Ernest Thompson Seton, born in 1860. When he turned 21 years old and came of age in 1881, he received a bill as a gift from his father. 

The father had carefully noted down in his account book all the expenses he had incurred for his son since he came into the world, including the bill for the actual birth, which took place in Canada and was paid for by the parents. According to his father, a man of legal age of 21 years was a man who did the right thing and accounted for himself. 

Ernest eventually became world-famous author of biographies of animals and it is said that he paid the bill without a murmur. 

One may wonder if Ernest felt guilty that he was born and had to pay for his own life from the first day he was born. Did he feel disgraced to have received such a bill?

Anyway - I removed the thought of ​​such bills from my mind at a very early stage