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Anonymous wrote:Let her dehydrate. She sounds like a silly insecure fool,

Rude. If you were a kid new to a country you would want to assimilate. It’s normal. Hopefully by high school she’ll get better quality friends.

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Anonymous wrote:Let her earn the money somehow if she really wants it. My middle schooler doesn’t have an expensive water bottle. She loses too many. None of us carried water bottles to school in the 90s, ever. Somehow we made it through the school day. I don’t care if my kids don’t take them.

When I was a kid there were water fountains in school, and most of us drank from them every day and had a drink (mine was koolaid in a thermos) in our lunch box or bought milk.

Now the water fountains are replaced with filling stations, and the thermoses are replaced with water bottles.

I posted that and am a teacher. There are regular water foundations in my school and in both of my kid’s schools. The filling stations have a regular water fountain on it too. I have no idea the brand but they all look like these. https://www.pittsburghwatercooler.com/Water-Bottle-Filling-Stations-for-Schools_c_281.html OP- what is the water fountain situation at your daughter’s school?

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Anonymous wrote:She might feel a little different already because her family is new to America. I would get it even though it’s stupid looking. She’ll probably relax more once she feels like she fits in.

Eh, I don't think that's it. Tons of kids in MCPS are first or second gen immigrants, and a lot of the schools are super culturally diverse. Being exposed to so many cultures was probably the best part of my MCPS education. It's TikTok. That's where all of her peers are getting their value systems from, and it's rubbing off on this kid. OP maybe you could talk to your daughter about the multi billion dollar influencer industry, and ask her if that's what she wants to be led by. You could read a couple articles about it together, and ask what she thinks.

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Anonymous wrote:Let her earn the money somehow if she really wants it. My middle schooler doesn’t have an expensive water bottle. She loses too many. None of us carried water bottles to school in the 90s, ever. Somehow we made it through the school day. I don’t care if my kids don’t take them.

When I was a kid there were water fountains in school, and most of us drank from them every day and had a drink (mine was koolaid in a thermos) in our lunch box or bought milk.

Now the water fountains are replaced with filling stations, and the thermoses are replaced with water bottles.

Anonymous wrote:Being a first generation immigrant, i just don't get it. 8th grade DD goes all day without drinking water even though her dermatologist and her doctor told her she needed to. She said any other water bottles aside from a Stanley Cup is "trashy" and she would be judged by "people in the hallway". She would rather go for 7 hours without a drop of liquid and it's clearly taking a toll on her skin and overall health. Her close friends are kind although all of them have the "right" sneakers and "right" water bottles. She's in a MoCo public school, which has both FARMS kids and kids from relatively affluent families, I was really hoping to raise a confident daughter who's not too worried about how shes' being perceived by others when it comes to material processions. Am I sending the wrong message by giving in?

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t she use the water fountain at school if her water bottle is not cool? I get wanting to fit in but right now it’s the Stanley cup, it will be something else later.

Anonymous wrote:Let her earn the money somehow if she really wants it. My middle schooler doesn’t have an expensive water bottle. She loses too many. None of us carried water bottles to school in the 90s, ever. Somehow we made it through the school day. I don’t care if my kids don’t take them.