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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$200+ soccer classes for toddlers are The Worst IMO

Those break down to $25 per class and gets us out of the house for a few hours every Saturday morning. Trust me, I would pay $25 for someone to run my toddlers on the weekends we don't have soccer (or another activity) where I can sip my coffee while it's still warm.

Real question, not snark. Why can’t you just go to the playground? I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old. Every Saturday we go to a coffee shop, get a bagel or pastry or something, and then we go to the playground. We’re all out of the house for a few hours and they love it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$200+ soccer classes for toddlers are The Worst IMO

Those break down to $25 per class and gets us out of the house for a few hours every Saturday morning. Trust me, I would pay $25 for someone to run my toddlers on the weekends we don't have soccer (or another activity) where I can sip my coffee while it's still warm.

Anonymous wrote:Just curious!

My babies were born in 2010 and 2012, so I'm totally out of the loop!

For a blast from the past, here's what I remember rolling my eyes at a decade+ ago:

-New mom Facebook groups with names like "The private AWESOME mommy group <3"
-Packs of moms in yoga pants doing exercises with their strollers at places like the Mosaic District
-Strollers as status symbols (suspect this is still the name!)
-Grimey mall play areas being the #1 toddler attraction
-Mommy and me movies where people still shushed you if your baby was being loud
-Unsolicited advice from strangers at Target about your feeding choice, regardless of whether it was bottle or breast
-Competition from other moms about who could breastfeed the longest (especially without supplementing)

Anonymous wrote:$200+ soccer classes for toddlers are The Worst IMO

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids born in 2021 and 2023.

Gentle parenting

An influencer hawking a course or guide for every niche problem, from potty training to motor development to sleep training to feeding

Woke kids books

Which books?

Anti-racist baby, A is for Activist, books for toddlers about RBG. Just go to the kids section at Politics and Prose and you’ll see what I mean. They are not at all helpful for having age-appropriate conversations about race with young children and I sincerely think that they’re just a way for parents to virtue signal.

Anonymous wrote:This is a fun post! My kids were 2011, 2013, and 2019. My 2011 kid is the one for whom I spent the most time on message boards, since I had no experience with babies. There was definitely a divide between parents on their 2nd-3rd kids, who were still a bit more old school, and the new moms who were very dogmatic about breastfeeding, etc. With my first, I didn't even have a smart phone, so it's funny to think how technology was just not a part of her life till she was 2-3 yo.

I did not keep up with the newer trends by the time my 3rd came along, but it seems like moms now are much more critical of sleep training and more cautious about baby sleep positions. (My older two slept in rock n play type things with their pediatricians' blessings.) It also seems like today's parents are more cautious about rear facing in the car seat until they are like 8 years old. I have noticed kids seem to be younger and younger when they get personal electronics.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids born in 2021 and 2023.

Gentle parenting

An influencer hawking a course or guide for every niche problem, from potty training to motor development to sleep training to feeding

Woke kids books

Which books?

Anonymous wrote:I had a baby in 2015 and was TTC for 2 years before that, so a lot of your stuff from 2010-2012 was still true in 2015. I don’t think my friend group ever liked the indoor play areas or trampoline parks though, which was annoying for me because I love a good grimy indoor playground.

Then I had a baby in 2019. By that point the exclusive breastfeeding at all costs stuff had really started to die down. One thing that is different now is who is anti-vaccine and pro “natural health.” In 2010 I’m sure it was all the very liberal in liberal areas. By 2015 the hard right conservatives had started to pick up on it but the liberals hasn’t abandoned it yet. COVID was the thing that pushed all the liberals to the pro vaccine “science” camp. I’m pretty sure the anti-vax liberals are now conservatives with mostly conservative political views. It’s been a big change.

I also found that the emphasis on cloth diapers and buying a huge collection of baby wraps/carriers died down around 2015-2016. It seemed like those went along with the huge emphasis on breastfeeding.

The eye roll inducing trends now are:

huge emphasis on “gentle parenting” even though it clearly does not work at all for some kids. No time outs, lots of “ohhhh I see you are upset little Larlo, you’re really screaming and crying and kicking a lot.”

Autism awareness/acceptance, which is great, don’t get me wrong. My 2019 toddler has ASD but he was diagnosed by an actual doctor at age almost 3 with level 2 ASD. The eye rolls come about with the endless reels of little kids being basically normal, hyper little kids with a whole long caption about their autism and they are so smart and special! And the kids who are lower functioning are still looked down upon or forgotten about.

Beige and neutrals everything, millennial parents hate colorful kids stuff and plastic toys. Also, no artificial scents, dyes/colors, no plastic, organic even if it’s not proven to be any better. Thats the new conspicuous consumption. Everything is labeled as “Montessori” too.

Bluey, which is clearly enjoyed more by parents than kids. My kids like SpongeBob and my younger one likes Paw Patrol. The classics!

The competition now is about who’s kid started swimming and/or on the swim team the youngest, who started riding a 2 wheel bike the youngest, who was reading the youngest and the hardest books and who’s doing advanced math in 2nd grade, in some areas with ES kids who’s on the best travel soccer team.

Anonymous wrote:I had a baby in 2015 and was TTC for 2 years before that, so a lot of your stuff from 2010-2012 was still true in 2015. I don’t think my friend group ever liked the indoor play areas or trampoline parks though, which was annoying for me because I love a good grimy indoor playground.

Then I had a baby in 2019. By that point the exclusive breastfeeding at all costs stuff had really started to die down. One thing that is different now is who is anti-vaccine and pro “natural health.” In 2010 I’m sure it was all the very liberal in liberal areas. By 2015 the hard right conservatives had started to pick up on it but the liberals hasn’t abandoned it yet. COVID was the thing that pushed all the liberals to the pro vaccine “science” camp. I’m pretty sure the anti-vax liberals are now conservatives with mostly conservative political views. It’s been a big change.

I also found that the emphasis on cloth diapers and buying a huge collection of baby wraps/carriers died down around 2015-2016. It seemed like those went along with the huge emphasis on breastfeeding.

The eye roll inducing trends now are:

huge emphasis on “gentle parenting” even though it clearly does not work at all for some kids. No time outs, lots of “ohhhh I see you are upset little Larlo, you’re really screaming and crying and kicking a lot.”

Autism awareness/acceptance, which is great, don’t get me wrong. My 2019 toddler has ASD but he was diagnosed by an actual doctor at age almost 3 with level 2 ASD. The eye rolls come about with the endless reels of little kids being basically normal, hyper little kids with a whole long caption about their autism and they are so smart and special! And the kids who are lower functioning are still looked down upon or forgotten about.

Beige and neutrals everything, millennial parents hate colorful kids stuff and plastic toys. Also, no artificial scents, dyes/colors, no plastic, organic even if it’s not proven to be any better. Thats the new conspicuous consumption. Everything is labeled as “Montessori” too.

Bluey, which is clearly enjoyed more by parents than kids. My kids like SpongeBob and my younger one likes Paw Patrol. The classics!

The competition now is about who’s kid started swimming and/or on the swim team the youngest, who started riding a 2 wheel bike the youngest, who was reading the youngest and the hardest books and who’s doing advanced math in 2nd grade, in some areas with ES kids who’s on the best travel soccer team.

Anonymous wrote:Kids born in 2021 and 2023.

Gentle parenting

An influencer hawking a course or guide for every niche problem, from potty training to motor development to sleep training to feeding

Woke kids books