When kids say "but everyone else has it"

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When my kids think that they should have everything that everybody else has, I personally, have a standard line that I use that my mother taught me, and that is: Life is not fair. There are always going to have people that have more than you. There are always going to have people who have less than you. You will always have what you need. You may not always get what you want, but that is life. Life is full of minor disappointments. I always tell my kids that if there is something that they need, they will get it. They can't always get something they want just because their best friend has it.

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Jane Rose is one of the co-founders of Seven Arrows Elementary School in Los Angeles, where she oversees the business office in a  K-6 school rooted in traditional academic rigor with a unique curriculum of world culture and the arts in a community where parents are partners. Seven Arrows believes academic success creates strong self-esteem, growing compassionate, inspired thinkers and ethical leaders. Prior to co-founding Seven Arrows Elementary School, Jane sold residential real estate for many years on the Westside of Los Angeles.  Jane is an avid hiker and paddle-tennis player, and  the mother of four children ages 13 to 23, and is a third generation Los Angeles native. 

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When my kids think that they should have everything that everybody else has, I personally, have a standard line that I use that my mother taught me, and that is: Life is not fair. There are always going to have people that have more than you. There are always going to have people who have less than you. You will always have what you need. You may not always get what you want, but that is life. Life is full of minor disappointments. I always tell my kids that if there is something that they need, they will get it. They can't always get something they want just because their best friend has it.