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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Life is not perfect for any of us, and we shouldn't try to make it perfect for our kids either. There will always be someone with more than your kid-- more money, more stuff, more intelligence, more athletic ability.  Trying to protect our kids from this reality does them a disservice.[/quote]

PP: This is one of those quotes that are from someone who has "never" faced this situation, or has no real idea how their kids feel. [/quote]

I am not the PP you quoted, but I disagree with your assertion that PP's view is possible only from someone who never faced being less privileged than classmates or who does not understand how her children feel to be less privileged than their classmates. I grew up being not as wealthy as most of the girls at my girls' school, and my friends tended to be, like me, from the upper-middle professional class, as opposed to the super-rich who rode steeplechase or had a house in Geneva. I did an internship in town instead of going to London and Paris during our winterim session, and I didn't even think to ask my parents whether I could take such an expensive trip as the London-and-Paris trip. I understood that we were not as rich, and I saw how hard my father worked for our money, and it was fine. My parents instilled in me and my brothers the goals to be attained by attending the expensive private schools they sent us to: a good education. Today my two kids are at STA and NCS and we are, still, just of the upper-middle-class professional class, and my kids are not among the super-wealthy like many of their classmates, and they are fine with that. A solid grounding in what is important is everything. And parental attitude is very important here. The idea of insulating children from feeling bad because they will be poorer in money and material goods than their classmates is bad if it means depriving your children of a chance to be at a school you otherwise deem worthy. [/quote]

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