How could she possibly know the details of her mother’s financial situation?

When you’re young, it’s easy to be incredibly juvenile about money. If you have it, you spend it! If you have the money to spend on it, you can certainly afford it! Young spoiled kids have little to no sense of how much work (or dumb luck) goes into acquiring a large sum of money. They might have a rudimentary understanding that the way to keep money is not to spend it, but they lack the discipline to put it into practice. 

Some parents choose to spend a lot of their hard-earned money on their spoiled rotten kids, and that’s their prerogative. You might think it’s asinine for your coworker’s daughter to have 50 American Girl dolls, considering that’s $5,000 that could go towards her college fund. But if you’re not the parent, you don’t have a say in how parents spend their money on their kids! The person who has the least say in how their parents spend their money is their kids. A lot of kids think their parents are made of money because they live in a nice house and have two cars, but they don’t see all the hard work that goes into maintaining such a lifestyle.