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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Before everyone else piles on, let me add that I am a single parent who scrapes together the money for summer camp. I drive an old car, wear old clothes and bring a lunch I pack every day to a job where I am underpaid. My budget simply does not allow for $30 a week for ice cream at camp.

Some of you assume that I am denying my children something I was given (we ate ice cream at home, not from the ice cream truck). My parents, who were not wealthy, saved to pay for four years of college and most of my professional education as well. That is my priority for my children as well.

And no, I am not the same mom whose kid spent $18 on a lunch at the museum.

But flame away. I wish you could walk a mile in my worn down shoes.[/quote]

Ok. That's a different story and you didn't include that. Can you tell them they can have icecream with you at home on Friday? Make it special even if it's cheaper. Like make your own Sundays with cherries and sprinkles etc. talk it up and make it something they can look forward to to take the sting off not eating icecream at camp with everyone. 
With them and the money I'd focus on them taking $ from a friend without knowing they could pay the friend back. Don't admonish, just talk. [/quote]

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