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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look if you're one of those parents who don't care about enriching their children's lives with activities, lessons, summer camps, vacations, orthodontia, nice clothes and age appropriate toys (including the iphone and data plan they'll eventually need starting in upper elementary or ms), and oh yeah COLLEGE, then yes I guess you're right, they're not that expensive.

If you're the typical UMC parent who DOES care about all that stuff? They're expensive as f***. [/quote]

and yet somehow I went to an Ivy League school and became a typical UMC parent, even though I never did any activities other than free school teams and bands, never took vacations, never had an iphone. This consumerist lifestyle is not necessary. Free yourself!

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Were iPhones readily available when you were a teenager? You must be a very, very young parent.  I did not grow up with the same standards, either, however times are a changing! You may be in for a rude awakening. [/quote]

yeah, there was no expensive stuff when we grew up. expensive stuff appeared for the first time in the history of mankind the moment you became a parent. what a coincidence![/quote]

It's not just expensive things.  [b]Way more competitive than when we grew up.[/b]  You seem determined that because you didn't have it, neither should your children.  Maybe you will stick with that, but most parents I know want to help their children succeed. [/quote]

speak for yourself. i was extremely competitive as a child, went to harvard and have a phd. there are many ways to compete and even more to be happy, successful and productive.

my 5 yo is extremely ambitious and competitive and i am looking for ways to diffuse that rather than add pressure.

btw, my children have travelled overseas multiple times. and i don't count that as "child cost". i do it because i enjoy it, not because it's a way for my children to "fit in" or be competitive and successful.[/quote]

Please mention your Ivy League degree again. Also I'd like to hear of your 5 year old's accomplishments since she is "extremely ambitious and competitive".  Is she MVP for soccer? Straight A's? Made a killer STEM fair project?
I would like some more tips from you on how to be so successful. It's really nice of you to come in and set all of us moms with older kids straight. [/quote]

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