5) Clothes from a premium priced store. Trust me on this. Take a look at those adorable Baby Gap or Gymboree styles, then go buy your son’s clothes at Target or Sears. Take the money you saved, and put it in an account for when he’s a teenager and has a deep, psychological need to dress like everyone else. In the meantime, he’s just going to wear through those clothes anyway.
4) Any toy whose on-screen advertisement features kids playing in a setting that does not even remotely resemble your yard. Through the years, my kids have been suckered into wanting so many toys because the kids in the ad are out playing in – what – a swamp? We don’t live in a swamp, and if we did, Shrek would have something to say about it.
3) Most advertised toys in general. My boys seem to have the most fun when big sticks fall off the trees. Cheap entertainment rocks.
2) An iPod. Why start ruining his hearing early? By his teen years, you’ll begin to think that he went straight from the umbilical cord to the earbuds.
1) A cell phone. Nothing says spoiled like seeing elementary school kids exit the building yakking on cell phones. Whatever happened to being in tune with the world around you?
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