Today the kids and I stopped at our snack spot for some smoothie and banana bread. I paged through the local daily and the boy asked what I was reading about. As it turned out, the teaser was "The Vanishing Middle Class" and the article was summarizing a recent study that shows that since 1970, poverty and affluence have each and both deepened and moved, with poverty suburbanizing and affluence taking over city centres and of course, all the nice parts.
Once I explained what the word "vanishing" means, I then I had to reassure the boy that we weren't going to disappear: no matter what, we're still visible, our little family.
Next was giving the preschool version of class divisions: the rich are the people who have more than they need and the poor are the people who don't have what they need and the middle class are the people who are just right. And then I did my quick sermon about how the world works best when the people who more than they need can share with the people who dno't have what they need.
And then my girl said, "We're rich, right mom?"
Right.
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Right.
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