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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The costs are much more wants than needs. [/b]

My middle schoolers play club soccer $8,000 club fees, ~ $2,000 tournaments. They go to sleep-away camp for 4 weeks for $16,000. They both have iPhones so I’m paying for their service. They are still growing, but their taste in clothes are adult sized Lululemon, no more janey and jack target. And they are pretty much adults for other costly aspects like no more kid discounts on food, movies, activities, etc. so those costs pretty much doubles.

So basic fixed costs for our middle schoolers are about $28,000 (camp, soccer, iPhones). Might be our last year of soccer as they both want club volleyball which is also $4,000 per kid before travel costs. [/quote]

Exactly this.  Buying your middle schoolers Lululemon or sending them to a sleepaway camp is a choice.  Paying to someone reliable to watch your toddler while you work is usually not a choice.[/quote]

Also, some of these people with tween/teens posting paid for childcare a long time ago. They have no idea how much it’s gone up, especially post-COVID. I had a gap between #2 and #3 (born in 2022) and the costs have gone up SO much. With my first 2 (born 2014 and 2016) infant care was about $1600/month whereas now centers near me are starting around $2,400/month. It goes down closer to $2,100 for older toddler, but that is still expensive. Also, I went back in Amazon at one post to check old prices and even diapers and formula costs have skyrocketed. So I don’t think asking someone who had their kids circa 2009 to compare their childcare costs to raising teens during inflation is going to be an accurate reflection.

Also keep in mind income goes up. Our HHI has jumped from 150k to over 300k in the past decade and will continue to go up. So it’s easier to absorb costs on our salaries now vs. having kids in our late 20s/early 30s.[/quote]

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