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- From: lewis@linac.fnal.gov (June Cummins Lewis)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Diaper Services - worth it ?
- Message-ID: <LF#U97WVE@linac.fnal.gov>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:36:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: linac.LF#U97WVE
- References: <1992Nov12.190157.5582@ticipa.pac.sc.ti.com> <1992Nov12.235738.15882@tessi.com> <1992Nov14.154827.14794@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov14.154827.14794@bcrka451.bnr.ca> seanna@bnr.ca (Seanna Watson) writes:
- >So, if I recycle all my newspapers, and compost all my grass clippings,
- >yard waste and most kitchen waste, and try to avoid excess packaging (all
- >of which I have been doing since before my children were born), then I shouldn`t
- >worry about cloth vs disposable? In my area, there has been newspaper
- >recycling for many years, and this year, the municipalities banned grass
- >clippings and yard waste from the garbage. But I have always thought
- >that it was unfair to pick on parents of young children, who have enough
- >problems just coping with life without feeling overly guilty about their
- >diaper choices. (My guys have been out of diapers for ~3 years, and I
- >used disposables, but still had less garbage to put out than most of my
- >neighbours with older (or no) kids.)
-
- Thanks for saying this, Seanna. We also recycle all of our paper,
- glass, plastic, yard waste, etc. But we use disposable diapers. We
- tried cloth diapers twice; both times my son had constant rashes (even
- after the diaper service used a special rinse for his diapers) and
- his diapers leaked constantly. I found the cloth diapers extremely
- inconvenient, but the main reason we stopped using them was they were
- not good for my son's health. Should I have continued to use them
- even though they made my son and me miserable?
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- You people who keep bashing our decision to use disposable diapers
- would have your words receive a better audience if you took this
- approach: rather than just insisting that we switch to cloth, how
- about suggesting ways we can make the use of disposable diapers more
- environmentally sound? For example, Huggies recently came out with
- ultra-thin diapers which have less than half the bulk of the regulars
- ones (that's what it looks like--it could be less or a little more).
- Why not encourage us to use these thinner diapers or tell us what we
- could ask for in a letter-writing campaign to these companies? You're
- acting like this situation is black and white, and it simply is not.
- Rather than keep on with your holier-than-thou attitudes, try working
- with us.
-
- It really bothers me that the "targeted population" mentioned in a
- previous post (the group of disposable diaper users) is one largely
- made up of younger women. I don't think it's just because diapers
- users are a specific bunch of people--I think it has to do with us
- being a group that's very easy to target. 'Nuff said.
-
- June
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- "Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their
- feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order
- to avoid talking about baseball."
- --Deborah Tannen, author of _You Just Don't Understand_
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