Holidays, Then and Now
I remember my boss getting very pissed that her daughter expected her holidays to be in London, New York or Dubai. But can you really blame the kid, I remember thinking back then. If that’s what she sees her friends at school and in the neighborhood do, then that’s what she’d want to do. I was also smug that such a thing wouldn’t happen to me since I didn’t make (anywhere near) as much money as my boss did. Sadly, my assumption is proving to be wrong, bit by bit. While my boss obviously lives in a far better house than mine, she doesn’t send her daughter to some fancy international school. Rather, her kid was going to an academics-is-the-most-important-thing kind of school, which means most kids come from middle/upper-middle class families. And yet, her kid expected foreign holidays. I should have seen it coming… My daughter started expecting holidays around when she was 4. For the last few years (and touchwood, even now), a holiday is good for her as long as we go to any pla...