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When your child's social world demands money you don't have

My daughter goes to private school with kids whose parents buy them $300 sneakers and I lie awake calculating whether I can afford the class ski trip without touching our emergency fund.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The anxiety of economic inadequacy becomes entangled with parental love and the fear of your child's social exclusion.

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