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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
You're right, ART, and that's exactly the major fear of adolescents. Not death or starvation, but the fear of being different. No kid wants the $120 Nikes because they might be comfortable or well-made. They want them because it would be certain ostracism to NOT have them.
Nike knows this. Abercrombie knows this. GAP knows this.
The cure, as I see it, is empowering kids with their own fiscal responsibility. Give your kid a clothing budget every three months and tell him/her to buy whatever clothes they want with that money. However, they cannot have one cent more no matter what. They can certainly buy the $120 Nikes if they really want them, but they'll soon learn the value of the $20 blue jeans and the Clearance rack at Old Navy.
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that's what my parents did for me, I had an allowance to buy clothes, books, and school outings. I had to make hard choices of something cool vs. something practical.
I never dressed cool in school, until I got a girlfriend and she started picking out clothes for me. The clothes that I got from shopping with her were bought with my earned money and not the allowance. We also used to fight alot about the clothes I wore because I was a well dressed teen and I had lots of business meetings after class so I dressed pretty conservatively usually.
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