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Mariah Carey says she tries to keep twins Moroccan and Monroe 'grounded'

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ByAndrea Tuccillo
August 09, 2019, 2:41 PM

Mariah Carey may have extravagant taste, but she’s trying to keep her children – 8-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe – from being spoiled when it comes to spending money.

“It’s hard, but I try to keep them grounded so they don’t think everything is just handed to them,” the singer told People magazine.

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“Right now it’s like, ‘I want this,’ and I’m like, ‘You’re asking me for something that costs $20. I can’t even imagine having, like, one dollar as a kid, because we didn’t have money going around,'” Carey said. “So they have to appreciate those things.”

Carey said her family moved around a lot as a child and she's learned to try to "make the best of whatever situation I’m in.”

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Recently, Carey visited Camp Mariah, her Fresh Air Fund camp in Fishkill, New York, for low-income children, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. She brought the twins -- whom she shares with ex-husband Nick Cannon -- to the camp for a day.

“They’re a lot, but they give me so much love in return. I wouldn’t be the same person without them,” she said of Roc and Roe. “I think Nick and I have done pretty well in co-parenting, staying friends with each other, so that we can talk.”

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