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•Buy Nothing Groups Seem to Offer Everything—Except a Chance to Get to Know Your Neighbors
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The local online parent group, where I’d hoped to find new friends, was basically a random yard sale.
In the early days of being a parent, especially, your life seems like a constellation made of only problems.
In place of socializing, we’re using a parent community as a bartering platform.
The calls for in-person community are rare but existent in online parenting groups.
Michaeleen Doucleff, author of Hunt , Gather , Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy , Helpful Little Humans .
She says the online parenting group drowns in consumerism but it’s devoid of human spirit.
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