Dear Care and Feeding: How can I help them still feel special?
I’m a single mother with twin 9-year-old girls. We live in a fairly well-off suburb, but we’re on the lower end of the economic spectrum there. My kids know we aren’t the wealthiest people in our community, since their classmates talk about spending the summer at their second homes or flying to Disney World every year, and some of them even have expensive smartphones .
But it’s always been obvious, really, as their friends live in detached homes on tree-lined backroads, while we live in an apartment above my parents’ convenience store on the busy main street of our town. Recently a lot of big, unexpected expenses have come up, and I find that I’m telling my kids “We can’t afford that” way more often than I used to. Things we took for granted, like getting takeout, are becoming a rarity, too. My daughters have of course noticed the downturn.
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