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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being blunt here... What did you expect if you send her to an expensive private school? Do you drive expensive cars? What does that teach her?

Your kid doesn't know anything different.  She is surrounded by wealth, and people who have expensive things.  What did you expect?
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I posted the first question asking if she attended private and this is what I was thinking.  I suspected it wasn't her being just superficial. All kids want to do is fit in.  You send her to school with kids she can't fit in with economically what do you expect?  Not saying its resolved with public school depending on the neighborhood but publkc schools tend to be more economically diverse.  If all the kids vacation in Europe, ski in Aspen or wear brand name clothes what do you think will happen?  You have to put in the work to instill other values.

She is normal.[/quote]

Agree with this. She just wants things her peers have and fit in. Normal stage of growing up. [/quote]

But she has two miserly parents who only want the cheapest discount clothes from Target or elsewhere. Daughter probably feels like she sticks out like a sore thumb in her school environment. Why would the parents do that to her? They aren’t going to force her to see it their way. I had a friend who resorted to shoplifting because her parents were so unreasonable and ridiculously cheap and she was ashamed of her old out of style clothes.[/quote]

My teens wear walmart clothing...saying parents are unreasonably and ridicuouly cheap is crazy.  Different values.  She can get a job.[/quote]

I would question the values of people who shop at Walmart knowing their sleazy tricks regarding employees.

If you know how to shop you can find the average teenage clothing for just a little more. 
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