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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you believe that people care more than they actually do. Kids are busy having their own fun not moping around about your summer or whatever $$$$ trip you are taking.
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This.  I grew up UMC (by DCUM standards...in reality, we were rich -- mom stayed home, dad a biglaw partner, house in a W-school cluster), but my parents didn't like international travel, so our vacations were always road trips to ballparks/amusement parts within a few surrounding states.  It wasn't until I was much older, like into my 20s, that it occurred to me that people might find our vacations "low class" and "trashy."  It never even occurred to me that our vacation was less interesting or exciting than the international jaunts my friends were taking.  [/quote]

I think the difference is you weren't tortured by snapchat & instagram like my teen. She has FOMO all the time and social media makes it worse. She can't disengage from it because that's how all her friends communicate. [/quote]

Exactly.  I had no idea what my classmates were up to during the summer, but my kids know just how many fabulous trips their friends and classmates are on.

My teen DS just rolls his eyes at it, but my tween DD is affected.  She doesn't understand why we aren't constantly on vacation or running around seemingly every night going to festivals, carnivals, fireworks, etc.

It's the same at winter break.  Besides the trips skiing or to the islands, my kids are seeing photos of mounds and mounds of Christmas gifts surrounding a tree and then photos of the fabulous gifts these kids are getting.  Our Christmas is much more modest and I've told my kids that I don't want to see them posting anything that shows off gifts.  [/quote]

I was a lower middle class student at a private school in the 80s pre-social media. My friends and I were well aware of all the expensive presents bought during Christmas and bragged about in school, and all the trips over the summer, also talked about in school the next year. The difference is the kids now can see it in real time. It would have been a whole lot easier in public school with more kids at my income level.

I would think now, if you don't go to school with kids so much richer, it would not be as depressing. [b]But if you do, you know exactly how much you may be missing out on[/b].[/quote]

I can't stress this enough: EXACTLY what you're missing out on. It's 24/7 pictures & video clips - [b]nothing[/b] is left to the imagination anymore.[/quote]

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