To wonder how you would give DC the best life ever if money was no object?

[Ifimnottheone]

Before anyone says anything, this is of course not saying that money buys happiness, of course not. This is assuming that the child has a loving family, etc.

So, if you had unlimited amounts if money, how would you give your children the best life ever.

My list would be:

1. The best education money could buy.
2. Access to whatever extra-curricular activities/tutoring they desired.
3. A spacious, comfortable house with their own bedroom.
4. Regular travelling
5. Days out

Am I missing anything?

You get a lot of stick on here Xenia but I have a real respect for you. I do remind my dds to look for well paid jobs so they don't ever have to rely on a bloke.

That's really important to do if you can manage it in my opinion. We just need to hope that they protect their assets.

i have respect for xenia, too.

I remember 2 of my friends who attended private school really seemed to look down on poorer kids and would mock their clothes, their houses, the professions of the parents etc.

SallyWD why were you friends with these people if you thought they were so ghastly?

Dapplegrey

Newmum - would you provide this for the whole school or just your children’s year? Would you go on providing it after your dc had left the school?

Whole school, but they’re at a small school so it’s not loads of classes. The school is good at integrating the years together so it would be better to be a benefit for them all.

Would I provide this after they’d left?
I hadn’t thought that far! If money is no object... sure! Realistically I don’t think that a school would be able to accept it anyway. But I like (most of) their class peers, I wouldn’t want to ship them off to private never to see their friends. It would be amazing to see them all excited together.

I would either have a home education teacher or I would privately educate - sen support in schools is atrocious so I would pay for extra support.

I would make sure we took at least a couple of holidays a year, to some lovely cultural places. I would also take some time travelling the U.K.

I wouldn’t spoil them with any more material things than they already have, it would be nice to not have the financial worry.

I would buy a nice house where they could have their own spaces and maybe even a smallholding where they could grow their own veg and keep chickens etc.

I would still live in the country, no money on this Earth could persuade me to move to a city.

That’s all I can think of right now

A swimming pool
A camper van
Healthy food

The best education for them.
A large house with lots of land for them to play.
Moderate savings to give them a house deposit.

Thanks. I am sure most mothers do their best for their children and what that best is will vary which is wonderful. I want to live in a UK where we can all be different if we want to be with different family lives and aims. I do think a good education and knowledge of careers for women (and men) can be useful in life so children can make informed choices even they go down a different path later.

I suspect however at the heart of it we all know what most of all children need which is something that costs nothing - love, happy caring parents and that kind of thing.