With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

One reason so few Americans are having children is we're convinced that raising them will bankrupt us.

Too many parents think that their kids need not only food, shelter, and love, but the very best of every product in order to thrive.

One mom recently wrote in the Atlantic that choosing a stroller or a crib now feels like, quote, a measure of your value as a parent and your child's future success. And social media only

makes it worse, guilting parents for not getting top-of-the-line supplies and equating certain

kinds of consumption with responsible parenting. Writing over at first things, Kevin DeYoung

named this trend, Kindergarky. Babies don't need fancy things,

he continued, and often the best parents dare to give their children more by giving them less.

Look, Amazon just doesn't sell what kids need the most. Our love, our time, our commitment to

raising them in the Lord, our commitment to teaching them what's true. Give them these gifts,

and it won't matter how much you spend on a stroller.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.