Yikes! Kids are expensive!

[Anonymous]

I think you’re doing them a disservice if you give in to requests for expensive clothes they’ll grow out of (speaking as parent of a confident, happy middle school girl whose wardrobe is from Target, Old Navy, etc.)

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Anonymous wrote:Ha. Kids are expensive their whole lives. It doesn't start at 8. Most people buy their children completely new wardrobes every 6 months because they outgrow a them and you can usually do that with $350 if you shop smart and in sale (this includes swim suits, shirts, pants undies, socks etc.) So yeah in gonna side with the other posters that this original post is rediculous.

You are missing the point. When your kids are little, you can shop smart and on sale, by buying things at Target or from previous seasons or whatever. When your kids enter 4th, 5th, 6th, they start to reject those purchases. By middle school they pick their own clothes. [/b]In middle and high school if you are saving money on your kids’ clothes when you can afford not to, you are probably doing them a disservice. You will see. [b]

OP was correctly noting the change from having little kids who wear what you buy them to an older tween girl who starts to want what her friends have. Different ballgame.

A disservice? Really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. Kids are expensive their whole lives. It doesn't start at 8. Most people buy their children completely new wardrobes every 6 months because they outgrow a them and you can usually do that with $350 if you shop smart and in sale (this includes swim suits, shirts, pants undies, socks etc.) So yeah in gonna side with the other posters that this original post is rediculous.

You are missing the point. When your kids are little, you can shop smart and on sale, by buying things at Target or from previous seasons or whatever. When your kids enter 4th, 5th, 6th, they start to reject those purchases. By middle school they pick their own clothes. [/b]In middle and high school if you are saving money on your kids’ clothes when you can afford not to, you are probably doing them a disservice. You will see. [b]

OP was correctly noting the change from having little kids who wear what you buy them to an older tween girl who starts to want what her friends have. Different ballgame.

A disservice? Really?

I think you’re doing them a disservice if you give in to requests for expensive clothes they’ll grow out of (speaking as parent of a confident, happy middle school girl whose wardrobe is from Target, Old Navy, etc.)

+1 This PP lives in fear of her daughter being left out of a group because she doesn't have the "right" clothes, and doesn't understand that it's actually your job as a parent to teach your child than anyone who requires you to dress a certain way in order to be your friend isn't actually worth befriending. You are just setting your child up for a lifetime of thinking she can buy or style her way into friendship and happiness and even if it works (which it won't always), it is an empty, shallow life.

Teach your kid she's worthwhile no matter what brand her bathing suit is. And then if you want to splurge on an expensive bathing suit or something, and can afford it, great! But don't teach her these things are social necessities. What a burden for her.