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   PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 12:01:31 JST PunishedD

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   @WashedOutGundamPilot @UpADamnMountain In an actual community, those clothes get cycled around to sibling's kids, neighbor's kids, the kids of your friends from church, etc. Kids don't care about hand-me-downs, and mothers should make them the first choice. If you do buy quality baby clothes for your first kid, that's fine (every anxious parent does that for their first kid, never the second). Just so long as you expect them to be in circulation for the next 10-15 years.
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     UpADamnMountain (upadamnmountain@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 12:01:32 JST UpADamnMountain

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The kid will have outgrown them before he even wears all those 2 times. Hell my kids run around diaper-naked most of the time at that age. This kind of over-indulgence doesn't serve the kids at all, just strokes the vanity of the parents.
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 12:01:32 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @UpADamnMountain That's why having dad around counts. He brings her fanciful female collection instincts back down to reality with "honey we don't need $1,000 worth of baby clothes he'll outgrown in 3 months"

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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 12:01:33 JST Summertime for Zeon

     Marketing is just absolutely crazy to see, when you really knock it out of the park and build a whole ecosystem for upper middle class mothers who have the free cash flow (or debt flow), the time to obsess over every little aspect of their kids' health, the the absence of familial community to back her up.

     This lady is posing with all her bamboo-fabric onesies, about $35 to 70 a piece. Her instincts are nice, they come from a good place, but this shows what's bad about it - (I'm painting broadly here, using this image as a basis for a phenomena that may not exactly describe her) - is that women like this need to have these impulses reigned in and moderated by men and family.

     It's good that she cares this much, but on the other end of the spectrum she needs to leave baby outside with dad as he works outside for a day, needs to hear him say "ah, he's fine, he need to play in the dirt and roughen up a bit. Good for his immune system" She needs him there to moderate her care and nurture, to ensure her kid is pushed outside the comfort zone, forced to clash against the difficulties of life, and made stronger by its struggles.