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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up with money and definitely lacked the understanding that everyone did not go to college or vote when they turned 18. I began to understand this when I was 17 in 2000 and had conversations with classmates who were eligible to vote but didn’t in the 2000 presidential election. I went to “elite” private schools through 10th grade when I rebelled and told my parents that I refused to go back to the school I was at because it was full of terrible bullies and drug addicts. I finally convinced them to let me attend a large public high school and it was extremely eye-opening. 
I was raised to know how to behave in any social situation. I attended a state dinner in my mothers place and an inaugural ball when I was 14. I was raised to participate in volunteer work from a young age and my family is on the board of a number of organizations. In my 20s and early 30s I have been asked to participate in high level volunteer positions in elite institutions, which has lead to board service at several of them. I’m by far the youngest board member in those cases.
[b]We had a nanny/housekeeper and a pt gardener when I was a child and both were treated like members of the family.[/b] I was taught to cook (by my mom, who had learned from her parent’s chef), and how to clean and do laundry properly.  My parents definitely instilled a work ethic in me, I worked all through high school and college though I didn’t “need” to, and now I work although my husband’s the primary “breadwinner”. I’m also the principle parent for our children and make sure that I’m able to spend quality time with them daily.  
I can ride a horse well, sail, pilot a plane (though haven’t in years), play tennis & squash, whip up a soufflé, speak 2 languages fluently in addition to English, set up a campsite, appraise art, navigate my way through any place and plan a dinner party to perfection. [/quote]

Sure they were. People always say this and it's so tone-deaf.[/quote]

Not if it’s true. Our housekeeper lived with my parents when she retired, they nursed her and even hired full time care for her when she needed it. I consider her a second grandmother (one of my grandmothers was dead before I was born). 
Our gardener wanted to move back to Mexico after he had a family. My parents gave him enough money to buy property and build a house. He now runs a successful b&b and has visited us many times. His children both went to college; one is now a teacher and the other in medical school. [/quote]

Sorry, I don’t believe you. Your parents were so busy, successful, and important that they did not have the time to wipe your butt when you were a a baby, but they “nursed” the faithful old retainer in her dotage? GMAFB.[/quote]

When did I ever say that my parents didn’t take care of me? Of course they did. We had one housekeeper who was also a “nanny” but mostly just watched me when my parents were busy, which wasn’t all that much because while my dad worked, he was mostly retired by the time I was born and my mom worked pt and mostly did volunteer work. They wiped my butt plenty. Our housekeeper/nanny was the cousin of the woman who basically raised my mother (because HER mother had been too “busy and important” as you put it,  to wipe her or her siblings’ butts. (Actually she was busy doing a few things including having multiple affairs, helping get the first democratic woman elected to Congress, and taking photos for a national magazine, so she was actually rather busy… not necessarily in all good ways!). Both of those women, and their extended families, are like family to us. Our housekeeper suffered from a mild stroke and my parents cared for her after that, which mostly meant making her food and keeping her comfortably settled in her apartment. After she had a more debilitating stroke she needed round the clock care and that they did hire because they couldn’t physically manage it at that point. My parents were quite hands-on parents. [/quote]

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