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Parent of 2 kids. Parents receive enough judgement. Do whatever works for you! -cloth diapers? Awesome -train early? Awesome -train later? Awesome There's t
by xivzgrev 8mo ago
Parent of 2 kids. Parents receive enough judgement. Do whatever works for you!
-cloth diapers? Awesome
-train early? Awesome
-train later? Awesome
There's trade offs for each, and you are going to figure out what works best for you.
If you want to train later and the diaper companies make more money, that's how a market is supposed to work. They're providing a product you value. So all good!
- noemit 8mo agoIf I've learned anything from parenting, its to give more grace, because you really never know someone else's situation from a short interaction or fact about their parenting.
- mjklin 8mo ago“Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read” - Chinese proverb
- anal_reactor 8mo ago"An SLL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made" - William Shakespeare
- RaftPeople 8mo ago"Trying is the first step towards failure." - Homer S.
- tempaccount81 8mo agoWhy did you make a snarky reply? The post you replied to referred to a real Chinese proverb 家家有本难念的经
- anal_reactor 8mo agoHaha lol I look stupid now. But it definitely would've made sense to add the Chinese version for credibility.
- darth_avocado 8mo agoI wish all parents had this epiphany.
- dd8601fn 8mo agoI mean... they're pushing diapers for 6-9 year olds, now? What I took away is, by the early 2040s, "potty trained" is going to appear on peoples resumes.
- ThePowerOfFuet 8mo ago>I mean... they're pushing diapers for 6-9 year olds, now? [citation needed]
- vardump 8mo agoThose diapers are for children with medical conditions, such as bed-wetting.
- UncleMeat 8mo agoThey sell diapers for adults too. Some people have medical issues. This is not a conspiracy to convince adults to avoid using the bathroom.
- AndrewKemendo 8mo agoParent of three teens headed to college/trades in the next year. While I completely understand your positivity nihilism, this kind of parent as victim mentality needs to stop altogether. I’m looking around where I live and literally zero of these people have to raise their children because they didn’t have the access to abortion, contraception or public services.* 99% of parents decided to keep and raise a child. It is objectively bad to park your kids in front of an iPad for hours a day so you can work It is objectively bad to have your kids all over social media It is objectively bad to feed your children ultra processed foods Etc… If raising your children is not the most important thing in your life, to the extent that you’re going to actually do scientifically demonstrated correct things like providing them vaccines reducing sugar limiting screen time encouraging outdoor play and exploration and community building etc…then you should not have them. If you do not have a community that can provide this if you are not independently capable enough… then you should probably not have them. Being a parent is a transcendent privilege across every period of time, history, class and race - it literally is the driving factor of society. *In the 18 months since Dobbs between .9% and 1.2% (should be zero but here we are) were victims of rape and forced into birthing that child according to: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/64-000-pregnancies-caused-by-rape-have-occurred-in-states-with-a-total-abortion-ban-new-study-estimates/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/64-000-pregnancie...
- tqi 8mo agoIt's also objectively none of your business?
- AndrewKemendo 8mo agoAs a black man in America I can promise you that how you raise your children will objectively be my problem If everybody around me trains their children to be fascists that’s clearly my problem How Society runs is everybody’s business
- bdangubic 8mo agoAs a white man/parent in America - same!
- ThePowerOfFuet 8mo ago>If you want to train later and the diaper companies make more money, that's how a market is supposed to work. They're providing a product you value. So all good! Yeah, if you don't give a shit about the environment.
- s1artibartfast 8mo agoBest thing for the environment would be to kill your kid and then kill yourself. People can and do have multiple priorities
- bombcar 8mo agoTechnically you should kill as many as possible "for the environment". What we're really seeing in all this is so many parents are insecure in their parenting and decisions that they feel the need to jump to "do it my way or you're the literal devil." If we take the charitable view, it's that things like "cloth diapers saved so much money I'm sad others don't try it" - which may be entirely true. But trying to use things like "if you use a diaper you are the cause of climate change" is something beyond.
- tasuki 8mo ago> that's how a market is supposed to work. What about the negative externalities?