So if we want our children to be more sensitive to the fact that not everyone has what they have, it helps to seek out cross-class friendships, both for our kids and for ourselves. Any effort to forge those relationships, however, creates uncomfortable questions. Why try at all? The point can’t be simply to teach children what it would be like if their own family had less money. No family wants to be the source of a child’s edification. Nor should families with less be objects of pity.
