So much of what you talk about is both better for the child and better for the parents. It does take some planning and thought on the parents' part, but not much stuff to buy. The choices have to be a little more deliberate and the parents cannot bend to advertising and what "they" say parents should do. But isn't that exactly how you want your children to grow up? Making considered choices, not spending frivolously, and doing what is right not what "they" say to do? How they live as children is how they will learn to live as adults.
It's so hard to get parents (and grandparents) not to go on a buying spree when a new baby comes. But the babies end up caged in by lots of "stuff" in their rooms. I've seen the best results in people who were too poor to buy lots of stuff, they just let the babies roam around the house. I always wonder if part of these good results is due to the lack of excess VOCs and other contaminants that come with all this stuff.
So much of what you talk about is both better for the child and better for the parents. It does take some planning and thought on the parents' part, but not much stuff to buy. The choices have to be a little more deliberate and the parents cannot bend to advertising and what "they" say parents should do. But isn't that exactly how you want your children to grow up? Making considered choices, not spending frivolously, and doing what is right not what "they" say to do? How they live as children is how they will learn to live as adults.
Good points! Thanks for sharing them!
It's so hard to get parents (and grandparents) not to go on a buying spree when a new baby comes. But the babies end up caged in by lots of "stuff" in their rooms. I've seen the best results in people who were too poor to buy lots of stuff, they just let the babies roam around the house. I always wonder if part of these good results is due to the lack of excess VOCs and other contaminants that come with all this stuff.