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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Not the pp you're quoting, and I know I might get slammed for this, but why is a parent buying an easily affordable (for our HHI) $200 toy teaching poor values? This isn't a snippy question. I just can't think of what bad lesson I'm teaching my kids when I get them something that we can afford. [/quote]

Even if you can easily afford the ipad, I think you'd acknowledge that this is a rather expensive toy, right?  [b]In any case, that would be my view, and our HHI is over $1M.  With our kids, now teens and in college, my husband and I have made it a priority to instill a sense that you don't need expensive toys, clothes, cars and vacations to have fun. [/b] Sure, we have indulged our children with some expensive gifts, but we've tried to keep it proportional to the chid's age and the occasion.

I realize this is a spectrum, not a hard and fast rule, but it's worked pretty well for us.  Our kids are appreciative of the occasional indulgence  --e.g., our middle son was truly delighted when we gave him an iphone for his 18th birthday -- but they don't expect that all the time.  They're not jaded and they have also learned to take pride in earning money for things they'd really like to have.  Our two oldest earned enough last summer to cover all their non-tuition expenses at college this year.  As our kids have neared the point where they will begin to make career decisions, we're glad they have the sense that you don't need expensive stuff to be happy in life.  They are fortunate that they'll start out with no academic debt as we've paid for college and will be able to pay for grad school if they choose to go on with their education.  We hope that with this good fortune and the values we've instilled, they will make choices that will make them happy, apart from prospective earning capacity.           [/quote]

How do you do that? Our LO is still a toddler so she enjoys playing with everything from my iphone to an empty paper bag. I see the ipad as just another thing for her to play with in the range of toys she has.[/quote]

LOL! My question is about how you instill the sense that they don't need expensive things to have fun, not about your HHI. :D[/quote]

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