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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daughter really wants a loaded Jeep for her upcoming birthday, which is about $40,000. She's an all A student, co-captain of her athletic team, elected to student government, volunteers, works part-time after volunteer opportunity offered her a weekend job, dating a sweet boy at St Albans.[/quote]

Sounds like you have sold yourself on getting it for her. Do it if you can afford it. Though. [b]If your kid[/b] was not as athletic or [b]struggled in school would you do the same?[/b][/quote]

I'm one of the PP's who said we bought cars for our teens and would have at least considered buying this dream car if we could afford it. While I don't think athleticism makes much sense to tie in to the decision on the surface, I do agree with the idea that a car is a privilege and only deserved if the kid is a good kid in general and really has the whole package -- good grades, hobbies and/or a job that show productive use of time as a second indicator of responsibility, and otherwise looks to have their head on straight and to be headed for a bright future.

School performance was absolutely a key factor in our decision. We would buy a car for each child if and only if their grades for the previous year were all A's, and they could only use their car for as long as this continued to be the case. If grades slipped but remained above the threshold for our car insurance's good student discount, they could still use one of the family cars (a minor punishment in their eyes and would have been something of an inconvenience). If grades were too low to even get the insurance discount, they would have no business using our cars and they could either take public transportation or make arrangements with us/a sibling for rides. To me grades are an indicator of responsibility and are one of a few primary ways teen students should earn or lose privileges.[/quote]

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