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I think I'm very lucky. DD, at six, has learned the value of a dollar. She does not want to "waste" her money on "lots of junk" when she doesn't need things to be happy. She asked for somethings a couple days ago and DH asked her to look at the price and determine if that's what she wanted our money to go towards. She looked and immediately put them back saying that there were better things to do with her money. That's my girl! This is the same child who still hasn't spent a penny of her money in over years because she wants a horse one day.
She's also fairly good at understand why I dislike something when I explain it to her.
Step-dd said she dislikes holidays now because she gets too much stuff that's cheap, icky and breaks quickly. She says the things we give her rarely break and are "original". She hated that we didn't buy into commercialized things when she was younger. I don't know if it's lip service or what, because she's about as commercialized as a person gets (HM, Jo Bros, Camp Rock, "cool" clothing brands, Bratz, etc.), but she does seem to truly love unusual and unique things given to her.
I think I'll just keep on keepin' on. Obviously it's good on some level if that's what the teen is saying, right?
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Andy Warhol
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