stacy debroff runs momcentral.com. cadenzas the welcome to the program hell are parents responding to this day job market because of back-to-school spending? dark but we as parents are finding that we really need to set budgets with the national retail federation showing that we are going to spend five and $600 for each of our kids we are faced the challenge of regaining our kids in conversation about what it means to have trade offs. looking for deals and sitting down separating the pain that they need from the things that they tell us that they simply can't live without. we are seeing that overall spending expectations down better than 7 percent compared to what we spend per kid a year ago where are these budget cuts coming in terms of how we are looking to save money? i did that parents are first looking at generics. and also taking advantage of retail deals. for example i went shopping to buy back to school with my kids and we started with the basics and we were at staples and we found bills from a penny to $8 so w