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Wow. Just wow. Lex didn't even know where to begin anymore. Sarah wanted to share things with her siblings and she was even going so far as to say she wouldn't have minded sharing her room with someone too. Honestly. Maybe it was just her but she wasn't getting it. What was the appeal. Someone needed to explain to her quickly because she was inclined to believe that just maybe, Sarah had a fwooper at home that she listened to whenever no one else was around.
"I really can't see how that makes you responsible but I guess if you say it does then it must be at least half true." Sarah, was responsible, she would admit that. She would also admit that Sarah was the most grown up girl she had ever met. Something else she didn't understand.
Didn't every kid get a chance to be spoiled, even once in their lives. She knew for a fact that her whole life almost, had been centered around her and what she wanted so hearing that all...it wasn't quite getting through to her. "I don't think you're missing out on anything. You get your own room so no one can annoy you at nights plus if you think you're missing out then you can always owl a friend or call them on the phone." She had to call Jeremy because the bloody idiot was afraid of owls and Will lived next door so all she needed to do was open her window. Her Hogwarts friends, she usually ran into down in Diagon Alley. Outside of that, she needed no one.
Lex thought over the calculations. "I guess that would be excessive but why have so many children then if you won't be able to give them what they want? It seems kinda unfair to the kids." To her anyway.
Oh and now Sarah was talking about babies and getting married and...ewwww. "That's...er...wonderful, but..." She wrinkled her nose a bit. "Why?"
Sarah had a secret thought that Alexa was the way she was - self centred, spoiled and all- due to her upbringing, therefore Sarah never really judged Alexa, rather she pitied her. It was not Alexa's fault that she was brought up that way.
"It makes you more responsible, you know that if your mother made a set amount of food for supper enough for everyone to take two portions, then by you having a fourth you will be depriving one of your siblings. Also it makes you more independent. It also teaches you that there are other people in the world and therefore make you automatically likeable among others. It also makes you more mature, the healthy mature not ht e 3 going on 21 mature yet mature and wise for your age" Sarah could go on and on, yet she knew that frankly Alexa could have selective hearing at times and therefore trying to prove her point on that case was useless.
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I don;t think Sharing a room would bother me, I am a very deep sleeper and all. Also it means someone to clean up your mess when they get fustrated at it" Sarah smirked. She was not at all bothered by her clutter, yet others like her father was, so Sarah told him that he was the only one that cared if her room was a mess, so if it really matters so much to him he could clean it up himself. That kept him off her back for a while.
There was another very different way in the way the two were raised.
"My parents give us everyhing we need - love, food, attention,education, shelter and all, yet a kid wants a lot of things. Sometimes it changes daily, one day a new broom, the next day a chocolate frog etc, and by nature kids are never going to be satisfied with their wants, always wanting more and worse yet, not appreciating what they already have. So by teaching them the difference between wants and needs is very fair to the kids, in fact kids that don;t know the difference are missing out. Also, kids are like an investment for the future. When I see my nephew I know that through him and the future kids in my family, the chain that my parents continued from my ansecters will continue. Money is temporary, yet children are forever, they carry on into the future."
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Why?" repeated the incredublous Sarah. "
Because it means I can give ant nurture. Children make me happy, and I love it when kids hold out their arms to me. It will mean that I mean something to someone..." Sarah had been told that she was very deep before. She could not help it though.
"as I said before, it means that I will leave my imprint in legacy."