The constant hazing of parents with these bizarre new parenting trends has to be suppressing the birth rate.
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Giving your 6mo+ some table food is Lindy.
Paying $200 for a course on it is the bizarre new trend
An awful lot of bad parenting trends could be headed off if parents just acknowledged from the start that babies are babyish.
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It wouldn’t completely solve the problem, but we could do a lot of good on this front be banning TikTok
This has been going on for a very long time. One of the great things about Dr Spock is that he had common sense.
Causation might be the other way. When you only have one kid, it might encourage crazy neurotic types to over-invest in minutia. When you have three, you stop giving a shit about nonsense halfway through your second.
New parents should be legally barred from Google and social media from the time of the first positive pregnancy test to 2 years post birth.
I banned my best friend from doing this at my house because her seven month old kept fucking choking and it gave me a heart attack every time.
We did it and it was great. It didn't require any special training, you just like...give them food. It's not a big deal. If it ruined someone's life, their life must have been extremely fragile to begin with.
The thing is parents mostly think about crazy, overwrought stuff like this only after the baby arrives and they need to channel their newfound love and intense anxiety into something concrete.
This stuff tends to be big in internet spaces vs real life. I think a lot of it is moms are desperately trying to figure out their identity after such a big life change and latch onto minutiae like this, subconsciously, as a way to find a “tribe”
This is the most psychotic thing I've read in a while. Be normal! What your parents did with you as a baby is mostly fine
Seriously. And the implication that, if you don’t do it exactly “this specific way that I’m promoting,” you’re a bad parent.
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Yep. For our second my wife just said F it we're going straight to formula. It was fine
This is dumb. Yes people can get hysterical about anything. But done sensibly this is LOWERING the bar to baby-having by not locking you into a year of buying special baby food.
It's totally not because kids just basically suck and nobody likes them.
I am doing baby led weaning right now. It’s fine, this is weird. Do whatever the fuck you want.
I’m all for tossing out the dumb fads, but baby-led weaning doesn’t seem like one of them. It worked well for my kid and saved us time and money. If it’s doesn’t work for you, then don’t do it
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