After a playdate at her friend's villa, my 9 year old asked why our flat is 'so small'

tellapur problem. half the class lives in villas, half in flats, and they all compare in the van. we went with 'different families choose different things' and left it there. he asked once more and then lost interest

Our daughter asked the same thing at around that age. We tried asking her what she liked about our place instead of defending it. She listed the corner where she reads and the fact that her best friend lives two floors down. The comparison ran out of steam after that.

Same age here, and we got this after a birthday party. I told her straight: a bigger house costs more, and we'd rather spend on holidays and her classes. She thought about it and asked if the dog was also expensive. Now that's the question we're stuck on.

it comes back at every age just in a different form. at 16 it's phones and holidays. what helped us was saying plainly that some families have more, some have less, we're somewhere in the middle and that's fine. she's also seen by now that big houses come with their own problems

no kids yet so take this lightly, but i was this child. grew up in a two room flat in secunderabad and asked my parents the same thing. what stuck with me was my father taking me to see the house he grew up in. no speech needed after that