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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even at a public school, there are fundraisers -- stuff that your kids have to sell, times when you are expected to donate, teacher gifts.  With multiple kids, this can easily be a couple of hundred dollars a year.

Even in a cheap activity like Girl Scouts, you have to sell cookies, pay for a camping trip, a uniform, a badge, your kid will want to go to camp.

When your kids get older, you may be comfortable being the only parent to tell the kid they can't go on the expensive field trip with school, the only one in Spanish class not going to the Mexican restaurant, the only one in the choir not going on the trip to Boston or Disneyworld or something, but [b]many of us prefer not to stigmatize our children[/b].

You may be comfortable never taking your child to a movie, a play, a restaurant, etc.  but your child will feel funny in college if they have never done any of these things.

For the woman above, do you routinely RSVP no to birthday parties?  Do you not hold birthday parties?  On some level, I admire your stance -- but I haven't figured out how to check out of the cycle of consumption without also checking out of modern life and the social circle of neighbors and school friends, etc.  How do you maintain friendships with people if you don't do the same activities?[/quote]

For me it is not about stigma/keeping up appearances/keeping up with the Joneses.  It is about enriching their lives.

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