Do I need to buy DD a Jeep?
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Anonymous
| This is why I'm not sending my kid to your school |
Anonymous
OP is a teenage girl and this Pp is the op |
Anonymous
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I lived in an affluent neighbourhood when I was a teen. My friends had Porsche’s, corvettes etc. I had a car, but it was a beater. I didn’t give a shit when people made comments. My parents were going through a bitter divorce and didn’t have the money to get me something better. My parents taught me to be grateful for what I had.
Now that I have a daughter who will soon drive, there is no way I am buying her anything but a reliable beater. Her friends already have fancy cars, but I want her to be thankful that she has a car. We can afford a Jeep, but there is no way I will buy one for any of my kids as I am not raising spoiled brats. |
Anonymous
| Spoiling kids robs them of survival skills and ultimately inner confidence and a sense of accomplishment. |
Anonymous
| I told my dd no jeep because it isn't in the highest-rated safety group. (It's second highest, which is not bad but I had a bad accident once and insist on nothing below the top safety grouping for all of us.) |
Anonymous
| Obviously the answer is to buy her a BMW or Mercedes to keep up with her friends. |
Anonymous
I can afford lots of things. This does not mean that my kids can. There is a good chance that my kids won't do as well as I did financially. And they better start learning it now... |
Anonymous
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Originally, I thought we’d give DS one of our cars and buy a new one for ourselves. But then I realized, as a PP mentioned, that we’d be giving him a car he would almost certainly have to downgrade from. Or worse, he would consider that car the minimum standard going forward and compromise his financial stability for a car he couldn’t afford when the time came for a new one.
So instead of giving him one of our cars or buying him one of the “cool” cars he desperately wanted, we bought a safe, low mileage used Volvo. He used to hate it, but now it has a name and he takes it through the car wash every weekend. |
Anonymous
| Not a chance |
Anonymous
 the most spoiled peer I know grew up to be a surgeon.
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Anonymous
Really? I feel like its popular with teen boys and teen girls. I know 40 somethings who have them bc they loved them since being teens and treated themselves as adults! I was in hs and college in late 90s, early 00s and I remember loving the guys with the jeeps! |
Anonymous
| Make her get a job and save money to put towards a car. That teaches kids to work for what they want. |
Anonymous
OP here, I see this wasn't a very popular thread among most... I am not trying to spoil her at all, but she does well in school and makes good choices, and honestly, why not? I don't think buying her the car would spoil her, especially since DD 2 will get it right after she graduates high school. But what some PPs brought up about safety is something I will definitely look into. Are the Renegades or Grand Cherokees any safer? They seem to be very popular amongst kids in the area so I will look into those as well. Sorry if I came across as a little crazy... I swear I'm just a normal suburban mom trying to make an educated decision! 
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Anonymous
Why bother asking if you don’t intend to listen to anyone |
Anonymous
| One solution is getting a user bmw or Mercedes-Benz sedan. Fetched a 2011 328 i Xdrive for less than 8K |