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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thread about taking a stroller for a 5 yr old (on a walking-heavy vacation to multiple European cities) made me think about how there are just certain parenting decisions and topics that people are intense about. Like:

- stroller use past a certain age (seems to vary with some people thinking strollers are inappropriate after 2.5, others drawing the line at 4, others at kindergarten)

- age of potty training, people are so heated about this on both sides

- breastfeeding/formula

- daycare v. nanny v. SAHP

What am I missing? I'm a "live and let live" person and don't have strong feelings either way about any of these, and am always taken aback when people are militant about it. Especially when I'll talk to someone who seems fairly chill and then out of nowhere they are like "people who breastfeed past age 1 are engaging in child abuse" or something. I didn't even breastfeed past age 1! But I don't care if others do.

Why are people so intense about these choices? Why so judgmental? It feels like a waste of energy to me.[/quote]

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