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[quote=Anonymous]DD is 12 and over the past few months has started obsessing over all the things she “needs” but doesn’t have, or have enough of (in her opinion). I swear every week she is asking for something. Last week she was begging for Ugg slippers because everyone is wearing them to school now. This week it was a specific lip gloss all her friends have and a new color of a Lululemon sweatshirt “everyone” else seems to have. A couple weeks ago she came home from a friend’s birthday slumber party upset that she was the only one who didn’t have a pair of these $150 pajamas (and yes I could see from a picture the mom sent out that all the girls were in fact wearing these PJs). All of her requests are so expensive, which I don’t think she recognizes at all.

We live in an affluent neighborhood and from what I can tell many of the kids do have these things. DH and I both work and are fortunate that we make a good living, but we want to make sure DD understands the value of money and isn’t just handed everything she wants. Right now I would say she gets about 60% of what she wants, but I think we need to set some clear ground rules/limits. More than anything I just want her to stop talking about all the things she wants non-stop as it gets tiring and makes her sound really obnoxious.

Anyone else deal with this? Curious how you reigned it in.[/quote]

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