>A reminder to buy the kids things they say they desperately want.

If I were to follow this, I'd be spending half my days driving to stores to buy the thing my kids happen to "desperately" want today :)

Also a reminder that you're not obliged to _buy_ everything. Its kind of amazing how ingrained this is into a large amount of peoples' heads. You can get a lot of things for free or secondhand. I got my kids' large trampoline for free.

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sublinear an hour ago | parent [-]

You could also... just... not get them anything unless they earned it according to rules that they agree with and believe in.

Of course that would require a lot more parenting than buying things.

	▲	dnemmers 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think the previous comment was more about second hand, and free options compare to running out to buy them new from a store; not if the parent should/shouldn't get them anything.