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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are "haves". They have a fully funded college education, they will be gifted money for their first down payment, they have tutors when they need it, they have music lessons and play an expensive sport, they are bilingual,  they have braces, they have healthy home cooked food every day, they have parents who are home each day by 5pm and everyone eats dinner around the table, they have a large extended family that lives locally, they have nice vacations and have been able to do things like hike the Inca trail and are able to see first hand what they've learned in school, they have a family who models what it means to be a healthy adult, they have access to a great education.

I'm not ashamed my kids are have, nor do I try to make them think thry are not haves. They have opportunities and doors pushed wide open for them to walk right in. We hope they one day step through the thresh hold.
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Not to diminish your accomplishments or what you feel you have achieved, but everything you mention is pretty standard stuff and does not make your children “haves” in the sense that OP was intending. To be a “have” ensures that your children will thrive in today’s America totally apart from their own accomplishments, and really requires a seven or eight figure trust fund. [/quote]

Yup. What the .PP describes is just good parenting plus UNC money. Hardly unique.[/quote]

Is hiking the Inca trail that impressive?  I thought every college kid did that.

So all of your children are bilingual (from English only homes), and have hiked the Inca trail?  Mmmkay.[/quote][/quote]

Is hiking the Inca trail that impressive?  I thought every college kid did that. [/quote]

You’re talking about college?  I thought we were referring to elementary school children.  My children are ages 8 and 10 and they’ve already traveled to over 30 countries on 5 continents.[/quote]

Seems like kind of a waste, because I doubt they remember it. But also a pretty pedestrian country count for the DMV I would think. [/quote]

How many countries have your children traveled to and how old are they?

In my high SES Upper NW neighborhood/children’s school, none of the children that I encounter have been to even half this number of countries.  This includes the children of World Bank/IMF families.

Perhaps such travel would be wasted on your children.  However, my children often bring up fond memories of their trips to Cape Town, Rio, Paris, Tokyo, etc.[/quote]

Well, my three year old has been to 9 countries, but I never thought of that as extraordinary, and at that age the trips are obviously purely for our benefit. And do you really go around polling your children’s peers or their parents on their country counts. Seems very bizarre. [/quote]

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