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When Your Child Questions Your Economic Limitations

My daughter asks why we can't go on vacation like her classmates and I don't know how to explain that some people just have different kinds of lives.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parenting across class environments requires explaining inequality without creating shame or resentment.

Ideas that help explain it
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