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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 darth_avocado »

noemit wrote: post #59
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 I've learned anything from parenting, its to give more grace, because you really never know someone else's situation from a short interaction or fact about their parenting.

I wish all parents had this epiphany.

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

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

drecked wrote: post #145
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…

Your comment conveniently disproves itself. > It is objectively bad to feed your children ultra processed foods It’s not “objectively bad” To feed your children ultra processed foods. Once you do the work of defining what ultra processed food is in the first place (which you cannot because there is no definition and your argument is already lost), you will find that many ultra processed foods are objectively good for…

Thanks for raising the right voice

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

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Post by apexalpha »

kannanvijayan wrote: post #94
abustamam wrote: post #5

We're using cloth diapers for our daughter (6m). She's still exclusively breastfed so no solid poops but so far I estimate we've saved over $100/mo by this decision. The story may change when she starts on solids but I recommend everyone to try out cloth diapers, just make sure you have a routine and system in place to make it less overwhelming (we have two diaper pails next to the changing table, one for disposable…

We used cloth diapers for our son for about 8 months, and then it just got to be too much of a hectic nightmare washing the poop cloths between work and other issues. So we did disposables for about two years. We were having a hard time getting him trained off of the diapers, until one day we just decided to follow some advice we'd heard and took them off and let him go diaperless on the floors (thankfully wooden)..…

>Just thought I'd pass along the one training suggestion I have. Cloth or disposable.. when you're ready for them to move off it - it really helps if they're able to see and associate their bowel and bladder movements with the physical artifacts.

Cloth diapers help a lot with this. It's one of the reasons kids on cloth diapers are usually much earlier trained.

Modern diapers are so good there's essentially no feedback.

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

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Post by orwin »

drecked wrote: post #145
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…

Your comment conveniently disproves itself. > It is objectively bad to feed your children ultra processed foods It’s not “objectively bad” To feed your children ultra processed foods. Once you do the work of defining what ultra processed food is in the first place (which you cannot because there is no definition and your argument is already lost), you will find that many ultra processed foods are objectively good for…

> It’s not “objectively bad” To feed your children ultra processed foods.

It is though, it's in the definition, UPF are distinguished from processed food by having additives of no culinary nor nutritional value. So at best, they aren't better than processed food, at worst, they have additive that increase negative health outcomes.

note that if an additive (let's say high-fructose corn syrup) have inferior nutritional value than the product it replace (let's say honey),it is considered UPF, even if the process is quick and easy (i.e: you don't need a big industrial process to be classified UPF)

That's the definition in my country at least, maybe it's different in the US. I think you mistakenly think UPF are the same as processed food. This isn't the case.

[edit] you're right that it isn't objectively bad, because its rare something is "objectively bad". It is objectively worse though.

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

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Post by s1artibartfast »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #112
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!

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…

I read the parent post and your post several times and don't get the connection at all.

How do you think any of this relates?

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

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Post by eudamoniac »

tqi wrote: post #146
4er_transform wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's insane individualism to think other ppl don't get to dictate what kind of food people feed their kids?

I can simultaneously criticize your parenting and not want the government to "dictate" it be otherwise.

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

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Post by scuff3d »

joenot443 wrote: post #33

Have any parents tried Elimination Communication? Basically teaching your baby to inform you that they’re ready to go, and taking them to the toilet immediately. This is something my partner wants to try when we eventually have kids. Something I’d never heard of until last week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication

To each their own man, but I have a 9 month old and it's enough work without having to be on high alert constantly for bathroom queues.

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

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Post by s1artibartfast »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #130
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.

Best thing for the environment would be to kill your kid and then kill yourself.

People can and do have multiple priorities

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

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Post by tqi »

eudamoniac wrote: post #156
tqi wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's insane individualism to think other ppl don't get to dictate what kind of food people feed their kids?

I can simultaneously criticize your parenting and not want the government to "dictate" it be otherwise.

"I say whatever I want and people can't tell me to stfu" who is the insane individualist now?
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