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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in our mid 30's with two school-aged children.  We live in a 4 bdrm. colonial in Arlington.  We are getting ready to do a pretty substantial addition.

Prior to that, DH bought a townhouse in Arlington at age 27 which we sold in 2005 (to have the money to buy our current house).

We are not lawyers and have never received any type of financial assistance (after graduating from undergrad) from our parents.  So, you don't have to be "Biglaw" or have a trust fund to make it in this town.  DH has a really good job, we send our children to a great public school, and we live within our means.
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Parents paying for undergrad = family money.[/quote]

In our family and most everyone I know, paying for undergrad = parenting.[/quote]

If you think money has anything at all to do with parenting, you must not be a parent.[/quote]

Not the PP you are quoting, but my parents thought paying for as much of college as they could was their responsibility, and my husband and I feel the same way. If a parent can't afford to save, that's one thing. Just like my hard-working parents did, we are putting away a little each month. I don't want to saddle my children with that kind of debt before they are really starting out. They will have to take some loans and hopefully get scholarships as I did, but we want to help them.

And I don't buy that making a kid take out thousands in loans somehow makes them a better student. My siblings and I made straight As, and it's messed up to think that a person will only appreciate something if they are footing the bill. What does that say about what the child thinks of their parents and their hard work? I worked hard mainly because I wanted to succeed and it was how I raised, but also because I didn't waste the incredible opportunity I had that my parents had worked so hard for. Weird to think I wouldn't appreciate it just because I'M not paying for it, but I see that a lot on DCUM as a justification for not paying for school.[/quote]

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