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.
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.