Both my parents were Uni educated, both had professional high status jobs and we lived in a leafy area. But a poster on another thread pointed out that I didn’t have a middle class upbringing because being middle class is more than just job and education - it’s attitudes, beliefs, behaviour and lifestyle - and my mum was neglectful.
i finds this interesting as this is something I’d thought about for a while tbh - my mum often left me floundering while she drank spirits.
When I was growing up - a typical middle class upbringing would be -
A child has one or sometimes two siblings with at least one close in age
Either stay at home mum or a mum that puts her career on hold while kids are very young and only goes back to work when kids are in school
uni educated parents
parents without regular smoking habits or problematic drinking
parents emotionally stable
parents ensuring as far as they can that their kid only mixes with middle class kids
restricting/monitoring TV
now the only box I can tick is both parents uni educated - it’s a ❌ to all the others
anyone agree with this ?