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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, the best thing you can do is not to buy things everytime your child sees something. It sounds like you are doing a great job now, but it can get more difficult. So keep it up. The book thing - you can target used book sales and stress that you are buying things used. We started around age 3 to explain that (1) he may want every toy he sees, but he doesn't need it (2) that he is lucky to have what he does have, even if his friend has more and (3) if we bought everything we think we want, we wouldn't have money for food. I also talk about how we give our stuff to friends or families who may need them (clothes, old toys). And explain why we give food to food drives. The difficult part is finding the right balance between teaching and scaring. I think at one point I overdid it and my son was afraid we wouldn't have money for food. [/quote]
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