Children – In The Past And Now

Children didn’t have a lot of stuff in the past.
Most kids had clothes, things for school and some toys from their older brothers and sisters or cousins.
When children wanted to buy something extra for themselves, they would work and earn money for it.
Today parents buy all sorts of things for their children.
The cost of a raising a child through the age of 17 is about $235,000 in the United States.
Half of the population of the world, only spend $16,000 on every child.

Jane: ‘My cousin Mary hasn’t got an iPad. My uncle only gave her his mobile phone when she was 12.
He wants to give her another mobile phone for her birthday this year – his current mobile phone!
Mary isn’t sad or angry about it. She says, “My dad gives me a big allowance, and that’s enough for me.
I can buy a mobile phone if I save my money.”’

Alex: ‘My cousin Tom has got everything he wants, but he’s not happy.
Every day when he sees something new in his classmates’ hands he wants it – the newest video game,
laptop, gaming computer, VR headset, you name it. He says, “I don’t want to be behind my friends.
I always need to have better things than they do.”’