All I've learned from this tread is that people have some very strange beliefs...

Maybe talk to your DR instead of trusting what people say online.

As a childless person... I don't get it.

Is it like a rubber seal that keeps they lid on like in some other things meant to hold liquid or is it some other sippy cup related contraption

A side-effect of capitalism is the destruction of community. Back in the day when nuclear families weren't the only kind of family possible, first-time parents leart all of this from their in-laws. But now they need to take parenting classes.

I'm from semi-rural India, and it worked that way when I was a kid, but things are starting to change there as well.

Ah yes the famous learning curve of having to READ the INSTRUCTION BOOKLET of the things you buy

Land sakes ahead, HOW WILL WE MANAGE TO COPE WITH IT ALL

The worst this is that it's not even a READING thing.

Its a CARING thing.

God-damn, it's your fucking baby. You wanted it? you should have turned since conception into a linear algebra organic machine, devoted solely to calculating solutions for MIGHT DIE scenarios for your baby, applying n dimensional matrices to explore possibility space

Within the first few years, you should have been able to calculate most obvious scenarios (choking hazards, sand pits, piranhas, etc)

That frees up time to calculate the utmost edge cases ( wormhole traveling, memetic incursions, local brane collapse, and so on)

If you are smart about it, you can find an optimal stock selection strategy algorithm within P-Space

You should print the output in binary tho