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[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]

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

PP here. No my kids aren’t bilingual (white Americans) but they do have daily foreign language instruction in their top private.

As for Machu Pichu, yes we have been but we took the train.

Nothing in that post says “have” to me[/quote]

Daily foreign language instruction?  That means that they’re not bilingual.  So according to this definition, your monolingual children are not haves.  Move along now.[/quote]

Ooh someone is testy for being told that they're a "have not."

Look I am the poster who said that if you're not expecting a massive trust fund in your twenties which will set you up for LIFE, you're not a "have" in our current economy and political system (very rapidly moving towards oligarchy) and I stand by that.

So you're not exactly hurting my feelings with your stupid put down about foreign language instruction.

My kids are studying Spanish anyway and I don't see that Spanish will give them that big of an advantage as adults. But you never know I guess.

However, we will send them to Spain or South America for an immersion experience in high school and pay for them to study abroad in college so they can achieve fluency too.[/quote]

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