The following article is Ms. Huyen Phuong (currently studying Master of Communications in the US) showing the viewpoint of shopping for children aroundList of items to be purchased at birth and raising children causing a stir in social networksIn the past few days, pregnant women 7 months:
I just saw people share a post of the other young mother, listed each item to buy when giving birth andraise small.Looking at that list, I suddenly remembered the day when I sat down to listen to American parents lamenting about the annual investment of a lot of money in sports for children.
One of the other sister spent $ 100,000 for her children to play rugby.There is another home, costs $ 4,000 for children to play baseball.Why is it so expensive?For example, a baseball player must have uniforms, hats, helmets, jackets, shoes, pestles, balls, gloves, each of them a few versions.But that money is not as spended as money to take your child to practice, summer camps, competition, moving, renting hotels and sidelines.If the child accidentally injured, the money will increase again.After lamenting, the group of parents Wen was poor again and said: "In the past, we also played baseball but didn't need so much money, each one or even used the old clothes of others.Why is sports so expensive now?".
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It is not just because Phu Quy is born.Many American families owe their heads, but still have to live in that way, I still play.There is a study showing that an American family now usually spends 10% of income to invest in children's sports (while they spend about 13.5% on food for the whole family).
Sports is the national love of the Americans, the door that opens the opportunity to integrate into the community, the way of escape poverty, an opportunity for college, a personal and family pride.It is unclear because the nature of the land is large and healthy, the nature they like to compete, or because the specialized manufacturing companies have taught them that they do not exist.
However, love love is still there from the past until now, why is the money on sports increasing?I think it is because of advertising and social pressure.
Then when the consumption culture makes people think that the material and furniture to create happiness and social position, the pressure must be equal to you as you are equal to you by my aunt pressed on everyone.You cannot let your child play baseball without shopping for it like other children in the same team.You can not tell your children that "I play for fun, parents don't have money for me to play here and that place".Because a sport is not only a physical activity or an opportunity to make friends, it is something that makes children form the thought "whether I belong to this place", "do I look like you guys?".And both parents, they also turn investment for their children into an opportunity to affirm their social position, the opportunity to become a community member and prove the best love and investment for their children.
In the end, buying children with unnecessary or not needing so expensive to "whether or not" whether money ", not because it is not necessary or not needed expensive (Artwork).
Investing in a new child in Vietnam is probably the same.Why do children now need so many things compared to the old days?In fact, if young mothers wonder themselves, they will probably find that many items need to buy for their children to appear in the list because of three sources of information and pressure: the advertising of the seller, the characters as the mother.They admire and their friends.
When I read the comments around the shopping list for children, I found that most people focus on "conditional conditions to buy for children like that, and I have no conditions".That is, in the end, buying children with unnecessary things or not need to be so expensive to "whether or not" whether or not ", not because it is not necessary or not needed expensive.
ActuallyspendingAnyway, there are always two needs: what we need and what we want.Both of them, can be reduced, if we really ask ourselves about our own needs, about how much we are confident in our true value, if separated from our matter.Huu.The alertness and reduction not lies in how much we have but lies in what we finally understand what is best.
Look back at me and wonder if you really need that (illustration).
The difficulty is that people are easy to alert to themselves, but it is easy to be light -hearted when spending on their children.People may not see any problems when wearing an old outfit to hang out with a group of new stylish clothes, but it is difficult for me to fall into a similar situation.So,parentSimple and alert, it is a challenge that perhaps, must be extreme and resolute for themselves to be able to do it.
So, I just hope that mothers every time they listen to a seller, a hot moment or a friend (or family) saying that having to buy this and that is the best for children, look back at the childrenAsked if you really need that?Because what we think is the best for children at the moment, only contribute a little more waste to the world of children will live later, and to create money to buy something more expensive for children now, only makePeople take a little time spending children to work to earn money (or to measure, self -pity, wonder).But time is something that no one can recover, except Doraemon.In short, I just hope that I am a mother, then practice the principle of reducing children.