Socioeconomic Status Affects Childhood Experiences

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How did your socioeconomic status affect your childhood experiences?
My socioeconomic status had two sides that I loved. First, we didn’t have a lot of money to spend on weekends going shopping to stores. But when we had money it was spent wisely. For instance, I used to save money to go to the theater with my friends, we were a bunch of us going together in the public transportation to enjoy together the adventure of being in the theater and after that having a conversation about our impression and opinion on the movie. I don’t know how would be my teenage if I would have a lot of money to spend it on all the things that youngest like. Second, learning to wait to have cloth, shoes, and other garments was important in order to become patient

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