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[quote=Anonymous]The “value of a dollar” stuff is fine and good, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that a twelve year old is just trying to navigate the social waters in the affluent environment in which you have placed her. It’s not like she woke up and was like, “I don’t know what a dollar is worth so I desperately want this stupidly expensive cup.” The cup is just part of the intensive, mostly ape-like friendship jungle she inhabits every day. In another school it might be a cup that costs half or twice as much and it wouldn’t have anything to do with the kids knowing “the value of a dollar.” Obviously yeah, she has to take her puny little frontal cortex and try to think logically and big picture about the stupid cup and accept the short term social consequences of nonconformity as unfair and/or unimportant. But it’s asking a lot! Being twelve is hard. There will be whining. It’s not because she’s a bad person or “materialistic,” necessarily. [/quote]
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