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[quote=Anonymous]Don't beat yourself up about it. It's perfectly fine as long as you can afford it. I think a lot of us took the Little House on the Prairie books a little too much to heart and have this subconscious feeling that our kids should be devoutly grateful for an orange at Christmas and if they are so lucky as to be given like 6 buttons OF COURSE they should immediately create a button string and give it to their younger sibling (or nowadays, you know, donate it to the Less Fortunate). I mean, yes to philosophical conversations about consumerist society, buying local, etc... but treating your kids to some new toys a little more frequently during a pandemic is neither crazy nor morally problematic. Signed, someone who 5mins ago bought their toddler a water sprayer shaped like a 3 ft watermelon via the Target app because we can't go to Dutch Wonderland this summer but hell yes I can at least buy this thing. :)[/quote]
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