05-10-2015, 03:06 PM
What a different reality as compared to those of us who grew up in a materialistic consumer driven environment. As a child, I was instilled with a sense of incompleteness if I didn't have what everybody else had. It strikes me as good to live free of commercials telling us we are falling short of the glory of the god of consumerism; where we are told we need to get busy making ourselves worthy in the eyes of others. Religion and jingoism are intrusions to a healthy sense of self too. I applaud these parents for blazing a different trail for their children.