Here?s why I think we all need to stop opening gifts at baby showers
Meghan Markle is finally a mom and?if her track record with trendsetting is any indication?poised to change the face of parenting as we know it. Barely 72 hours into motherhood and she is already being hailed for everything from her name selection skills (Archie!) to her taste in trench dresses. And as long as we?re handing out hand clap emojis, I?d like to give the Duchess props for a decision she made back in February when the gifts at her star studded baby shower were left unopen. Perhaps because she wanted to open gifts in the company of her Prince, which is what shower guest Gayle King told CBS This Morning. But isn?t it also possible that the Duchess has attended her fair share of baby showers and knows that public gift opening is a tedious and outdated exercise that aught to go the way of the royal fox hunt" To be clear, my issue isn?t with feting a person (or people) on the occasion of a first child (that?s first child?none of this sprinkle nonsense). Becoming a parent is a major milestone, worthy of celebration and swag and bottomless mimosas. But for the love of BPA-free silicone soothers, can we cancel the part where everyone is forced to spend hours oohing and aahing over the same stuff they oohed and aahed over at the last baby shower" There?s always that one know-it-all mom who points out the gifts you?ll ?never use,? and the dutiful, clipboard-wielding pal who takes her secretarial duties just a little too seriously. Meanwhile, everyone else is...
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