This is a fluff piece written by someone in a rich bubble.
The 2 year old and 4 year old have no concept of money, the 4 year old did not “do most of the work” in a lemonade stand, and they do not have “their own money” to spend. Picking up after yourself and putting dishes in the sink are not chores, and kids this age aren’t taking out the trash - of course they enjoy it when mummy does it and makes a big deal of how grown up the kids are for helping, and probably rewards then for it.
None of the ideas are innovative or relevant to most parents, and particularly not with a kids that age. This is just one rich bored parent with young kids sharing their “experiences”. Pretty out of touch with reality.
“Look! My kids are almost like other kids, except they’re spoiled-wealthy-at-birth!”
–businessinsider.com
Every parent wants to spoil their kids. So they have it better than they had at their age. It’s just how it is. Your parents couldn’t afford Lego? You will buy the biggest set etc
Yep mine have a shitload of legos, plus the power wheels cars that I never got to have as a kid
Definitely not every parent.
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A kid being spoiled is not the kids fault, its the parents so i dont get what you are saying.
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Stop posting like you did? Love that you regretted your words right after saying them lol. Do me a favour and delete your next comment in advance too.
I’ll do something even better.
Cry to mommy mod and daddy mod? Typical lmao. A coward, a snitch, and an idiot, what a combo.
I looked for past articles from her on Business Insider. She is middle class, like rest of us. Which middle class person doesn’t hire an accountant and spend $1000 per month to make parenting easy!
Hello fellow middle-class citizens!
Lol, have you seen the cost of daycare… $1000 per month easy in most cities. Probably not what you meant, but it still made me laugh.
She has a job and 2 kids in child care age. $25 a day seems reasonable even cheap to maintain her career. And if an accountant can pay for themselves on a journalists salary then she should right?
I was pleasantly surprised by this sentence:
But I made it a point to explain [to my children] that while sometimes being homeless can be a result of not making good choices, sometimes it’s a result of not having good choices.
It smacks of empathy, which is more than I expected. Whatever one may think of the author, she’s trying to teach her children to be better, and that counts for something.
I’m putting my foot down! No more than fifteen presents!
What the actual fuck?
Also, what’s the deal with the golf cart? Why do they have a golf cart?
THUTTY SIX BUT LAHST! THUTTY SIX BUT LAHST!
It’s quite common here to have one for driving around neighbourhoods, as cheap ones can be $1,000+.
That still does not answer my “why” question tbh.
But I suppose that in a country where “walkable neighborhoods” are construed to be some nefarious communist plot to rob people of their freedom, not walking its a status symbol.
“for driving around neighbourhoods”, same as having a car.
Yeah the why is laziness I guess? Why walk when you can drive a smaller electric buggy for small distances and a big car for big distances?
Golf carts make sense in retirement communities - presumably the companies behind them are “growing the market” by targeting families as an alternative to push chairs and walking? Also I’m guessing these are American neighbourhoods which still are designed around cars than true walkability?
They are popular in more affluent areas so they can be driven to clubhouses or other neighborhood spots, and unsurprisingly very common in neighborhoods that have their own golf course.
Imagine spending $1,000+ when walking is free.
I can imagine someone with a disability wanting a cart like this to get around, but this woman does not need a fucking golf cart.
We’re all going to die because of this overconsumption bullshit.
Does someone having one prevent someone from getting one?
My friends have one because they have a baby and no car. Is their consumption too much for you?
Having one instead of a car isn’t overconsumption, but the woman in this article clearly has both. It’s a problem.
Imagine spending $1,000+ when walking is free.
This seems exclusive from that.
It’s quite common here to have one for driving around neighbourhoods, as cheap ones can be $1,000+.
So, where I come from, there’s nothing to drive to in the neighborhood except other houses. Also, a neighborhood is at most a square mile. That’s all I envisioned.
What, exactly, did you even mean by “neighborhoods”? It’s starting to sound like you’re talking about driving several miles.
It can be several miles since my friend’s one goes for 40km. Your neighbourhood is yours, we have lots of places to go to between neighbourhoods and districts, and lots in each.
Where is “here”?
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Electric cargo bikes fill the same niche here. Well, minus the boat part.
I feel like people just haven’t tried hard enough with the boats. 😉
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Cambodia.
Seems ridiculous. Why not a bicycle?
Because babies exist.
Babies shouldn’t drive golf carts though
Shit, you got me.
I tell ya, the present thing is rough. When I was a kid, I got cards from aunts and uncles. But now they all send gifts. So there is 5 gifts right there. Then there is the grandparents. They have so much time to shop, they can bring 5+ gifts for each kid and only spend $50. So we are already at 15 and we didn’t even buy anything yet. It’s nuts.
Also, everything seems to have to be a gift now. Can’t just buy a thing and give it to them. It has to wait to be a present. Or maybe that’s just my wife. But also, when I was a kid, even in the rural area I lived, there was a convenience story where we could buy gum, or baseball cards and stuff for very little money. Now a pack of Pokémon is like $6 for way less cards. The only cheap things kids can buy is candy, and we aren’t supposed to let them do that anymore either. So everything ends up as a present.Also, everything seems to have to be a gift now. Can’t just buy a thing and give it to them. It has to wait to be a present. Or maybe that’s just my wife.
We specifically don’t wait for holidays to give things we want to gift to our daughter (soon to be 3). On her birthday in two weeks she will get a book, a plush animal, and a second hand peppa pig puzzle (I hate peppa pig but she loves it and she doesn’t even know there is a show). That’s it, but she gets many things throughout the year. My husband hates holidays and celebrations, I think that’s where this feeling of “let’s please not make a huge stock of presents to give her twice a year” came from. And it is so much less pressure to find “the perfect gift”.
And you can get rid of things much more easily. I don’t know about you, but if I got a bad birthday present, I tend to keep it, because it was a birthday present. Same for children’s stuff. She got that for her first birthday feels different than she got that when she was around 14 months. Somehow it’s less sentimental, and I am an awfully sentimental and nostalgic person, so this saves my ass.
Another point is that can change interests so quickly. I would not dare to buy her something peppa pig themed right now for Christmas or plan ahead for her 4th birthday. Or let’s say she needs a new bike - why would I wait until the end of summer to give it to her just because it’s her birthday.
But talk to me again on September 9th, I usually get very sad that we don’t celebrate with a crap ton of presents and decorations and a big party right before her birthday.
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My sister has a 3-row golf cart and I have no idea why. If I even ask she’s going to think I’m shaming her for being wealthy 😂
This reads exactly like my sister, if there wasn’t a photo I would think it was written by her. She has a closet filled with presents she is waiting to give her kids because they have too many at one given time
This is so tone deaf and privileged. Fuck this woman and this article.
Nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of Lemmings argue about the definition of middle class.
So many humans are so incredibly bad at being content with what they have - the grass is always greener on the other side…
Time to abandon the family and start a new one
