As a parent I vacillate wildly between buying too much on impulse, or out of guilt, and then trying to do penance by streamlining, de-cluttering, and scaling back. It has been a vicious cycle.
This book hit some solid notes for me about how little changes and one time decisions can spiral into either enormous amounts of money spent or saved, but where this book failed to reach me was in the decision highlighted throughout most of the chapters.
The savings suggested largely come from places that are not my reality to begin with. I am not deciding whether to hire the $300 per hour instructor or the $100 per hour instructor. I am not trying to decide which prestigious and pricey preschool program I will send my child to, ( if I am chosen) as a means to guarantee a feed into extremely private secondary school and university systems. I am not represented in the majority of these pages. Nor are the majority of people I would recommend this book to potentially. Sadly.
I'm glad this book exists for the audience it targets, however I will continue to look for the book that speaks to the parent living on a tight budget and trying to save for incidentals and the ability to assist my child with higher education.
This book was received as an ARC digital edition through NetGalley in return for a fair and honest review.
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