Stepdad refuses to buy 16-year-old stepdaughter $300 shoes and fast food 3 times a week, insists she gets a job to pay for it herself: 'Now my wife and my stepdaughter are upset at me'

In my opinion, a child, tween, or teenager should be a little apprehensive when asking their parent to buy them something expensive. I know I didn't ask my parents to buy me material things that cost over $100 frequently when I was a kid, even though I knew buying them wouldn't bankrupt us. It's one thing if you need sneakers for gym class, but no kid needs a video game console or fast food for dinner three times a week. Giving in to those demands as a parent will only make a kid worse at creating financial boundaries for themselves when they're an adult. That's how you end up with a 23-year-old with five figures of credit card debt, because Mommy never told them no, so why should they tell themselves no? When I was a teenager, I got a job not because I wanted to save money, but because I wanted to spend $200 on a wig that looked like the hair of my hometown's most famous real estate agent, and that's a lot better than asking my parents for the money to make such a frivolous purchase.

The teen in this story has no shame, and evidently neither does her mother.
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AITA for refusing to buy my spoiled teenage daughter expensive Chick-fil-A, boba, and $300 Shoes and telling her to get a job?

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