Your children will forget what you have bought them, but they will remember how you spent your life and love with them when they needed you. The secret of being wealthy is to know when you have enough and not allow greed to preoccupy your every waking moment. Are you buying their affection because you cannot communicate otherwise, or are you stingy with your money because a savings account is more important than your children's happiness. Money is only a means to happiness itself. It is easy to engage in deceit which will end up permeating your whole life and destroying your integrity if money becomes an overpowering priority.
Adolescents can learn simplicity and detachment only by imitation.
You owe it to yourself and your family to give these matters your serious attention now. Virtual reality and genetic science may give us the illusion of power, but we are not gods. WE are not our own, or anyone else's, creator. Nor, for our own safety, should we ever seek to be. And therein lies our only security.