Not a tv show, but I feel like the movie Spanglish really hit the nail on the head for how I was raised – I related especially to John's daughter Bernie. My parents argued a lot like the parents in the movie did and my mom especially would pressure me to be pretty and popular (at one point openly comparing me to the most popular girl in my grade) despite me being really shy and bookish growing up. My parents were also really fussy about keeping up appearances within "the community" (read: other rich people) and were mortified when I didn't get stellar grades or get an internship in the summer.

I went to public school for elementary and junior high but for high school I went to an extremely expensive, "experimental" private school where everyone was expected to go to an Ivy or equivalent. I found that a lot of parents would pit their kids against each other which fostered a really unhealthy hyper-competitive environment – it really fostered a feeling of "not being good enough" in me at a young age. Unfortunately all this pressure to keep up led to a lot of drug and alcohol abuse, both with kids and with parents. There was a lot of partying going on in high school and I know a few people who got hooked on narcotics pretty young.

Beyond that, there were a lot of fancy cocktail parties and expensive dinners for my parents to go socialize at, so I'd get left home with a sitter – one of my earliest memories is something like this picture. We also went out to really nice restaurants a lot (although I'm not sure that was normal, my parents just really like food). There were also a lot of group ski trips and almost everyone ended up in Europe over the summer. Despite this, the majority of people I knew seemed pretty down-to-earth (besides the crazy competitive college thing) and I personally never met anyone who had a "Rich Kids of Instagram" mentality.