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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your 7 year old kid is already asking about 1st class to Disney because other friends talk about 1st class and you want to instill some sort of respect for the poor and working hard, I'd get out of the neighborhood and school you're living in. First class is way beyond a typical middle class lifestyle at any time and [b]nothing a 7 year old should be bringing up unless they're on a plane to visit family and happen to notice the first class seats[/b].[/quote]

I am the poster who wrote this, and this is almost what happened. My 7 year old is familiar with first class because, on one of the few times he has been on an airplane (with his dad on a short business trip), they got bumped up to first class, thanks to my DH's high standing with the airline. But the effect is the same. He flew "first class." What he didn't get is that he flew first class that one time, because my DH, in working his tail off traveling for years, had earned the status.

This, in a nutshell, describes OP's problem, I think. Our kids are reaping so many benefits of other people's hard work (parents, grandparents, etc.) that it becomes an expectation to them.[/quote]

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