Perhaps if you take them to a dump. The wonderful people at my daughter’s day care are absolutely invested in their development and spend 6 uninterrupted hours per day with them focused exclusively on that. It’s stupid expensive though.

That depends on who you are as a parent though. It could be the strangers are lifeline and positive force on the child's development compared to what you are.

A lot of times people assume in these conversation the parents are put together individuals who think about their child's future or even care. And from what I've observed I don't think that is universally the case.

Popular opinion but raising the price of everything just because you can so people can't even afford kids anymore and then blaming poor people for that is a terrible idea.