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How to resist comparing your family's financial choices to others

My sister constantly brags about her kids' expensive activities and vacations on social media and I feel like I am failing my children even though I know we are doing fine with what we have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social media amplifies economic comparison and breeds inadequacy even among families living within their means and values.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and parenting — financial pressure and class?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.