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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, it's the area. Wait till all their friends start getting brand new cars for their birthday.[/quote]

OP here - I'm actually prepared for that as it's a nationwide thing, not just Bethesda! DH and I grew up in suburbia where if you didn't have a car, friends with a car, or a stay home parent to drive you some place, you weren't going -- there was no walkability, no subway/metro etc. That was actually a big thing for me that my parents didn't by me a car (used) AND didn't allow me to get a job so I could save up for a car -- and I was quite resentful. And even in my above average but not rich suburb, the rich kids got brand new SUVs the moment they got a license. I've always been 100% unwavering that each one gets a car on their 16th birthday. It'll be like a basic model Honda/Toyota, not a Mercedes, and if we have one to hand down at that time, fine; if not, they will get new cars.[/quote]

OP, the reality is that your children are growing up in a wealthier family than you did.  I’m in the same boat.  I have come to terms that my daughter’s expectations for how things should be will be different from what mine were growing up.  But it is not all bad.  Sure, she will want to go to Europe just like her friends do every year, when I was hoping to go to have my parents take me on a 4 - 5 hour drive to Lake George, NY. On the flip side, the idea of going to an Ivy League college is not something my friends or I considered.  Nor did we consider the possibility of obtaining high paying jobs to be very realistic.[/quote]

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