Spin off beautiful baby

[Anonymous]

this question is for you moms who're against "exploiting" the poor little gorgeous children of others:
do you avoid buying products that feature beautiful little ones?
what about the clothes you buy for your children? are they from stores that have catalogs with pretty and happy babies all over?
how do you live with this philosophy? i need some help here, trying to understand this...

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty shallow, so yes, I do buy products from these catalogs in hopes that my child will grow up to be a Hollister model.

[Anonymous]

I didn't follow the original thread. However, it would be impossible to shop in a Soviet-style atmosphere of non-commercialization.

[Anonymous]

this question is for you moms who're against "exploiting" the poor little gorgeous children of others:
do you avoid buying products that feature beautiful little ones?
what about the clothes you buy for your children? are they from stores that have catalogs with pretty and happy babies all over?
how do you live with this philosophy? i need some help here, trying to understand this...

I try to buy only from stores and catalogs that feature ugly, unhappy babies in their advertising.

[Anonymous]

OP,
It's easy. The children in catalogs and commercials are not mine! It's like going to the park and watching a mother give her toddler Cheese Doodles. Not my choice, I can't control their decisions, I'm not going to boycott the world until everyone leads their lives exactly the same way I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,
It's easy. The children in catalogs and commercials are not mine! It's like going to the park and watching a mother give her toddler Cheese Doodles. Not my choice, I can't control their decisions, I'm not going to boycott the world until everyone leads their lives exactly the same way I do.

Exactly. I'm the poster from the original thread that said the comment about Lindsay Lohan starting as a child model. I will go even further than your example and say I love celeb magazines which sell based on those types of stories!

My point was not that the children were being exploited though, my point was more personal to the OP - do you want to put YOUR child through that?

I wouldn't, but I'm not going to donate to a charity to stop the exploitation of child models. It's DCUM so I was sharing my thoughts, OP can decide what she wants.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

I don't mind that cute kids and babies are in magazines and catalogs. I go soft-and-melty when I see an especially cute, serene baby pictured in an ad. But it's not my kid. It'll never be my kid. (though when my ex is annoying me, I've been known to threaten, "be nice or I'll enter her in pageants!") I just don't feel like I want to go down a path of looks being focused on, vs. just being one aspect of the total package.

[Anonymous]

I did say something about exploiting children for modeling.. because I personally don't think that it's fair for a child to do that.. But I'm not going to stop buying products that I need for my child based on that.. For the same reason I'm not actively protesting other things that I believe in. Instead I vocally share my opinions in a public forum, and like the other PPs said. These are other children, to other parents that for whatever reason think that it's okay, and that's their right.

[Anonymous]

where are all the walmart boycott ladies now?