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by baobabKoodaa 163 days ago
Why does your child need 34 or 35 toys? She can be happy with just one or two toys.
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“Why don’t you just live like you’re destitute? So ungrateful?!”

How many toys do you have?

So many that I can't play with all of them, most of them are broken, and I don't have time to fix them, so I get really depressed because they aren't usable when I want to play with them. Now I'm trying to get rid of most of them.
"Back in my day, we had a cardboard box and a stick and didn't complain ..."
Now you'd get CPS called for the stick.

Mostly sarcastic, but I don't think it's a hot take to realize that the curtain has shifted substantially over the decades in terms of how to raise a child.