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How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by jasonlfunk »

tqi wrote: post #118
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent 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…

It's also objectively none of your business?

All of society is impacted by terrible parents who raise terrible kids.

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by 4er_transform »

tqi wrote: post #118
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent 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…

It's also objectively none of your business?

Individualism taken to the insane.

“How the next generation of your society is raised is none of your business”. Take some ownership

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by [deleted] »

Spivak wrote: post #114
vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ That's like $3 per day (a coffee).” Or $1000 per year? That little coffee a day already pays for a vacation flight.

Yeah, or 365 coffees (well for me it's energy drinks). I'm well aware which one of those brings me more total joy in my life and it isn't the flight. It isn't even close.

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Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by eudamoniac »

tqi wrote: post #118
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent 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…

It's also objectively none of your business?

The collective well-being of the society I live in is my business.

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by [deleted] »

Spivak wrote: post #114
vjvjvjvjghv wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ That's like $3 per day (a coffee).” Or $1000 per year? That little coffee a day already pays for a vacation flight.

Yeah, or 365 coffees (well for me it's energy drinks). I'm well aware which one of those brings me more total joy in my life and it isn't the flight. It isn't even close.

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Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

tqi wrote: post #118
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Parent 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…

It's also objectively none of your business?

Gee it’s a discussion forum my dude - people giving opinions on things that would otherwise be none of their business is what it’s for.

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by bdangubic »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #120
tqi wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also objectively none of your business?

As 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

As a white man/parent in America - same!

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by ralfd »

noemit wrote: post #15

My mom toilet trained me at 3 months. She had me on a schedule and she would hold me one toilet during the determined times and I would go. This was right after communism fell so she only had access to cloth diapers, and cleaning them was so annoying she did it as early as she could. She was shocked at how long my kids stayed in diapers. I asked her how, and well there is a slight difference between us. She had 2 yea…

In German this is called "windelfrei" (diaper free) or in english rather terribly named "elimination communication":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication

> Elimination communication (EC) is a practice in which a caregiver uses timing, signals, cues, and intuition to address an infant's need to eliminate waste. Caregivers try to recognize and respond to babies' bodily needs and enable them to urinate and defecate in an appropriate place (e.g. a toilet).

> Keeping babies clean and dry without diapers is standard practice in many cultures throughout the world. While this practice is only recently becoming known in industrialized societies, it remains the dominant method of baby hygiene in non-industrialized ones.

> The terms elimination communication and natural infant hygiene were coined by Ingrid Bauer and are used interchangeably in her book, Diaper Free! The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene (2001).

I actually know quite a few (a bit hipster) German parents who tried it with good success rate (at least they claim that). It doesn't have to be perfect, but you train regularly with nursing / waking up that the baby urinates with every nursing/waking up. This is possible from day one and they catch on quickly to it.

Edit: Here is a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ECers/

Re: How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

xivzgrev wrote: post #46

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!

>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.

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