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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sleep, family time, time with friends, chores, ECs, etc? [/quote]

- Short drive to school (private), so time not wasted there
- [b]No job,[/b] focus is on sports and studies
- Not many chores other than picking up after themselves (I was the same, we had a daily maid who did our laundry growing up and I am now [b]perfectly capable of keeping a great house, it's not hard to learn[/b])
- Close friends who play sports plus do other activities
- Planning of schedule so as to maximize free time at school, etc.
- Family dinners, breakfasts, and my husband and I being flexible with our work to be able to drive them to and from sports or spend time when they're free[/quote]

#1 is the highlighted along with what is HIGH level family support. They do nothing but school, family&friends, etc. They dont have daily or weekly chores, arent responsible for spending money and/or taking care of siblings, they never worry about money or enough gas or clothes or food.

And for the PP here - are you stating that you keep a clean home along with a FT job and no outsourcing whatsoever? Its not that cleaning is hard to learn it is having to do it ALL by yourself. People who come from these type of families typically dont suddenly get the legs taken out from under them- they go to college and never have a job unless they WANT extra money or do it for their resume/internships, they go to med/grad school after having entire summers at an "internship" or lowly paid lab job/summer intensive where they study for the GRE or MCAT (paid for by parents) while living at home and getting taken on vacations, they get their living expenses paid for including housing, their residency is supplemented by parental support/housing/grocery delivery, etc. [/quote]

PP here - no, I have a maid who cleans the house but for five or so months starting last March my husband and I cleaned it all ourselves. My point is that I didn't need to learn how to clean a toilet or frankly even do laundry (again, not rocket science) before going to college and I survived doing my own laundry and cleaning my own room while in school and also doing both after graduation and during grad school before I had enough money to pay for a maid of my own. Some people seem to think that if you don't make your kids clean toilets when they're younger they won't be able to figure it out when they get older and that's kind of silly, in my opinion.

When I graduated from college I got a job where I worked for a few years before going to law school (which I paid for with student loans), so while I wouldn't say the legs were totally taken out from under me (I had a car that my parents had given me during high school in addition to remaining on their insurance until I was too old), but I didn't do an "internship" while living at home or in a parent-subsidized apartment or anything like that. Besides, I highly doubt there are a ton of Big 3 kids whose lives are all that different from mine growing up, so the idea of having a high level of family support wouldn't be surprising to me. [/quote]
The point is that dine people don’t want kids with silver spoons sticking out their asses.[/quote]

I don't and my kids don't but if you want to paint everyone with a broad brush then go ahead. Honestly you don't sound like a pleasant person to be around anyway. [/quote]

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