Via MedicMike.
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“Parents are going into debt and taking out loans to satisfy their children,” said Dr. Susan Bartell (search), child psychologist and author of “Stepliving for Teens.” “They use their kids as a projection of themselves as a means of impressing people.”
…PoshTots.com, the Mecca for luxury children’s items, has created a booming business helping parents give their rug rats the royal treatment. The Web site sells everything from a $47,000 playhouse called “Fort Bethesda” with a fireman’s pole, turbo tube slide and a climbing wall to a $49 bunny “poof” skirt made of tulle for dress-up.
…”Parents are afraid to disappoint their children and are afraid that if they say ‘no,’ they won’t be liked,” said Bartell. “After a while the kids just come to expect it. … Nothing has any value anymore.”
Small tangent… I want a fireman’s pole in my house..when I hit it big and get a house I mean. I’d wake in the morning, throw on a bath robe, and slide down the pole to my game room. Then later that night, I’d drop down the the super secret game room also known as the hot naked chicks room.
I’ve got it all planned out.
