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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This will last through middle school -- unless your kids are extra tough on it...
https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/62209?feat=816-GN1&page=deluxe-book-pack-print&csp=f&attrValue_0=Periwinkle%20Sky%20Chevron
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Bags are a fashion statement for the kids. That LL Bean bag is ugly but practical, I wouldn't buy it for myself or kids.  Kids get teased about their backpacks BTW.  I let my kids pick whatever backpack color theme each year, but I wouldn't buy the $100+ bags until they were in older and they understood it would only be replaced if it wore out - which took years.

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A fashion statement.  I'm having a good day when my 7-year-old daughter doesn't insist on wearing a camp t-shirt or clothes that clash, I really doubt she's given much thought to how fashionable her backpack is.  When I picked up my DD yesterday, she commented that she needed to make sure her name was in her backpack because "lots of people have the same one, and I don't want them to take mine by mistake", and I also see a lot of them at school.  We must be in some weird, UMC fug-zone where LL Bean is acceptable.  My kids like all the compartments in them, too.

I also always love the "kids get teased!" argument -- are you really going to make purchase and parenting decisions based on elementary school teasing?  It's a backpack, not dressing your kid up in a 70s leisure suit.  I'd rather my kid be able to roll their eyes and realize that someone teasing them about their backpack is just silly and not so serious that we've got to go out and purchase something to cater to the whims of a school-yard bully.  My kids have been teased about their names, the fact that one of them wears glasses, their interest or lack of interest in Pokemon/Minecraft/Legos/whatever the fad toy du jour is, too.  We will hit a point, too, at which we can't buy them the latest do-dad that "everyone" else has and I'd rather start with small disappointments and teach some coping skills.[/quote]

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