Communion excesses - Consumerism undermining relationships

ONE of the really rewarding things about being successful is you can give your children things and opportunities you may not have enjoyed yourself.

Things you may not have enjoyed because your parents, like more or less everyone else in far less affluent times, simply did not have the money to indulge you as they might have wished.

However, even if they had the cash it is unlikely they would have splashed out on things as daft as indulgent and as pathetically insecure and ostentatious as some of the trappings surrounding our children’s First Communion knees-up.