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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, I am. My DD is talking about low paying careers and I keep reminding her that those careers will not support her high maintenance life style.
It's a a disservice to let her think otherwise. [/quote]

FFS.   She doesn’t have a lifestyle, she lives at a home where she makes no decisions on how she lives.    Most of us know people who had lived in huge houses with everything paid for and others with a single mother in a 2 room apartment.  Especially when you get to college.   I wouldn’t go back to the wealthy suburbs where every huge house at least two acres and the streets are empty because no one is in them during the day even if it was free.  There’s also no correlation between that kind of lifestyle and a happy marriage or healthy children.

Let your kids decide their own lifestyle and don’t worry about it. You’ll be surprised at how many of them aren't interested in repeating their childhoods. And if they do and their careers don’t pay enough then give them money.  You’re not going to live forever.  [/quote]

DP here. We talk about it when they whine they can’t have as much Lululemon as their friends. Or they can’t get a NEW iPhone like Susie when their current iPhone works fine. We’ll say “Hope you get a really good job in the future!”[/quote]

Kids are like that. They outgrow it.  Lululemon is not expensive in comparison to trendier clothing.  So be thankful she doesn’t have expensive taste.  I would tell her she can make her own decisions on phones and clothing when she’s an adult.  [/quote]

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