About a month ago we had new neighbours move in next door. This was a very welcome change as our previous neighbours, well, lets just say they were evicted for getting drunk and throwing their stereo through the window, and when we found out that it was a young family moving in, we were thrilled.
So they came, and they have two girls, one aged 6 and the other aged 4, same age as Bek. Bek and 4yr old hit it off pretty well, but after a week the kids started getting confident with us aorund and their true colours started showing through.
Theyre both spoiled rotten, they have everything money could buy, they have every gaming console available now, the handheld ones each, every toy known to man, everything. This wouldnt bother me if they werent aware of it. About 3 weeks ago we had 4yr old over playing with Bek, they were playing on the kitchen bench with play-doh when 4yr old comes out with "You should come to my house, because we have more money so we ahve better stuff"
I was a little taken aback by this, after all, this is a 4yr old were talking about.
6yr old is worse, one time I had both of them over for an hour or so and I offered them a drink, I showed them what we have in the fridge and 6yr old's eyes almost buldged out of her head, "Oh no thanks, I dont want anything" she then whispered, not so softly, to her sister "You dont want any of that stuff, its cheap stuff, you'll get sick"
The main problem is that Bek is starting to compare herself to them, she's now whining for all this stuff that she wouldnt have given a second glance to before, and last week we went shopping, and she had $2 pocket money that she wanted to spend, she normally spends it at the dollar store, because, heck, its $2, but she didnt want to go in because "Its a cheap store"
She's also worried about the brand of juice I buy, she dosent like that I buy our bread from the bakery instead of the supermarket, she wont eat vegetables from our backyard because they dont have a dollar value attatched and she's stopped eating porridge because she wasnt "Fruit loops 'cause theyre more 'spensive". Tonight I told her that I cooked $100 rice just so she would eat her dinner.
Second to that problem, Bek went over to play for 4 hours once and they spent the entire time playing with the xbox, according to Bek they went on it as soon as she got there, they ate lunch while playing xbox and when I came to pick her up they were playing on it. 4 hours and no break, I dont like that.
Bek dosent go over there anymore because I dont like the idea of my daughter sitting infront of a t.v screen for 4 hours straight, and ive really limited the time they spend over here, just because of Bek becoming so obsessed with money.
Problem is, even if we manage to ignore them for the remainder of the year, theyre the same age and its a small town with one kindergarten and one school, and im not sending my daughter off to school in another town just to avoid some people.
Does anyone have any idea on how to handle this situation?
So they came, and they have two girls, one aged 6 and the other aged 4, same age as Bek. Bek and 4yr old hit it off pretty well, but after a week the kids started getting confident with us aorund and their true colours started showing through.
Theyre both spoiled rotten, they have everything money could buy, they have every gaming console available now, the handheld ones each, every toy known to man, everything. This wouldnt bother me if they werent aware of it. About 3 weeks ago we had 4yr old over playing with Bek, they were playing on the kitchen bench with play-doh when 4yr old comes out with "You should come to my house, because we have more money so we ahve better stuff"
I was a little taken aback by this, after all, this is a 4yr old were talking about.
6yr old is worse, one time I had both of them over for an hour or so and I offered them a drink, I showed them what we have in the fridge and 6yr old's eyes almost buldged out of her head, "Oh no thanks, I dont want anything" she then whispered, not so softly, to her sister "You dont want any of that stuff, its cheap stuff, you'll get sick"
The main problem is that Bek is starting to compare herself to them, she's now whining for all this stuff that she wouldnt have given a second glance to before, and last week we went shopping, and she had $2 pocket money that she wanted to spend, she normally spends it at the dollar store, because, heck, its $2, but she didnt want to go in because "Its a cheap store"
She's also worried about the brand of juice I buy, she dosent like that I buy our bread from the bakery instead of the supermarket, she wont eat vegetables from our backyard because they dont have a dollar value attatched and she's stopped eating porridge because she wasnt "Fruit loops 'cause theyre more 'spensive". Tonight I told her that I cooked $100 rice just so she would eat her dinner.
Second to that problem, Bek went over to play for 4 hours once and they spent the entire time playing with the xbox, according to Bek they went on it as soon as she got there, they ate lunch while playing xbox and when I came to pick her up they were playing on it. 4 hours and no break, I dont like that.
Bek dosent go over there anymore because I dont like the idea of my daughter sitting infront of a t.v screen for 4 hours straight, and ive really limited the time they spend over here, just because of Bek becoming so obsessed with money.
Problem is, even if we manage to ignore them for the remainder of the year, theyre the same age and its a small town with one kindergarten and one school, and im not sending my daughter off to school in another town just to avoid some people.
Does anyone have any idea on how to handle this situation?
