loobylou wrote:
I agree entirely.
However there are people getting upset about this and I imagine some of the parents want to buy these coats/bags for their children, which suggests that that the problem lies even deeper. How could anyone ever justify spending such amounts?
There are people, and I have met some of them, who genuinely believe one should give children everything they want. It is a view of parenting I have never held with myself, but for those who espouse it, this is the manifestation of love which they consider most appropriate. In my view it leads to a nasty sense of entitlement which can now be seen in many aspects of public life. But attempts to challenge it are very difficult to sustain as it is an actual world view, an ideology of parenting if you like, which starts when children are very small and wield far too much power within their families. What might look cute (if you like that kind of thing) on a tiny tot refusing to do x or y unless condition z is met, is rather less attractive when your 15 year old can't live another day without a designer coat.