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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This applies to people are wealthy/UMC, and who wanted children.

I don’t understand people who don’t care about their child’s appearance. Long, tangled hair, worn out and old clothing, etc.

I cared for my two nieces this week. My sister and her husband have plenty of money, yet all of the girls clothes were second hand, polyester, thread bare, faded. I’m fine with buying second hand (reuse reduce!) and not spending your money on a child’s wardrobe, but Target clothes aren’t expensive...?

I feel bad for the girls. What will they wear to school?

Their parents clothes are always tattered and poor quality, so clothing is definitely not something they care about.

I have two boys who rarely look put together, but their clothes are decent quality. Not, ripping at the seams.[/quote]

Eh. My kids dress pretty well (mainly bc of hand me downs and second hand consignment stuff in the long-lasting brands PPs mentioned) but I sort of feel the opposite, as in sorry for kids whose parents obviously put a lot of thought and energy into their wardrobes and appearance. It’s so weird to see a six year old or whatever with a full closet of outfits, all bought new for the season. I just feel like they are being treated like dolls who are extensions of their parents’ narcissism — my child is a reflection of ME — and not like little individual people who couldn’t care less at this age what they wear.

If more people on the planet understood that children could be dressed in second hand clothes we would not be throwing millions of tons of hardly used clothing in third world countries. Oh but who cares that our planet is being destroyed, so long as our kids look cute?

I also feel you must have some rivalry going on to be so hung up on this. Are her kids smarter and nicer? Are you jealous of their family?[/quote]

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