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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine's using last year's version of this: https://www.landsend.com/products/kids-classmate-backpacks/id_393365?attributes=8833,43321,43376,44151,44623 Northface also makes great backpacks that are more durable but also bigger.[/quote]

Lands End is just cruel to buy for a tween.

North Face or plain old Jansport.[/quote]

NP. Why?[/quote]
There's nothing wrong with Lands End, some of my DD's friends have them. That PP is just a rich nasty snob. Normal kids have Lands End, kids whose moms' sole purpose in life is to stay pretty so her lawyer husband won't leave her maybe don't have them.[/quote]

Lands End and Jansport are the same price but the latter isn’t babyish. It IS cruel to purposely buy lame gear and make kids social targets when it’s easily avoidable.[/quote]

My daughter just asked for a Lands End backpack, so I bought it for her. It isn’t babyish at all. Just looks like a regular backpack. https://www.landsend.com/products/kids-classmate-large-backpack/id_337384?attributes=30936,43321,43555,43562

She is well-liked and very nice (not a mean girl at all). I doubt it will make her a social target. [/quote]

This backpack is nice/fine and versatile. I agree not to get something with big hearts all over it, but a solid backpack  or maybe a stripe in a color like red/green/black/navy is something I see a lot.  You just don’t want a print that looks like the pottery barn backpack my first grader wears. [/quote]

PP here w the Lands End backpack w rainbow hearts (yeah, I don't know why I'm back here, either). I did ask them if they might reconsider the design, which they might soon find too little-kiddish, but they confirmed this is the one they wanted. Maybe relevant, maybe not: tween is nonbinary, has eclectic tastes, would rather stand out in terms of style than go w the crowd, has many loyal friends and is widely liked, is one of the few kids in their grade who's never been bullied.[b] I have absolutely no interest in encouraging anyone, let alone my kid, to moderate their taste bc they might become a social target by others who find it "lame," "babyish," etc. If and when that happens - over a backpack, something else, or nothing at all - we'll deal w it and become stronger for it.[/b]

YMMV, as w all things.[/quote]

THANK YOU. This, exactly. God help the kids who are growing up with parents telling them that the stuff they like is lame.[/quote]

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