I have a beef I just want to get off my chest. I am so sick and tired of hive minded brother/singer cultists who think its ok to tell beginners to buy these toy junk machines from Walmart/Costco/BBS… These have never been and never will be “good machines”. They are made of cheap plastic junk and will either wear out/break fast, or will not serve as one gets more in to sewing like if they want to learn bag making etc…ESPECIALLY for kids! I HATE when people think you should just buy a toy for a kid who expresses interest. This is clearly telling them that you dont believe they will continue. Back “in the day” there were really no “toy” machines that were disposable. A child learned on their mothers machine which was likely built with cast iron (WAY back in the day) or at the very least steel. They didnt have “Finger Guards” and “Speed Control”. You learned to be careful or suffer the consequences! Its not like it was fatal etc. You just learned the hard way how to respect a machine. Kids now days have NO respect for machines/technology because its all catered to them on a silver platter. Rites of passage have been long forgotten, its cheaper and quicker if you have a hole in your pants to just throw them away and buy another pair at Walmart. It makes me sick how youth is today with their cheap plastic disposable living! My girls are in their early 20s. Thank goodness I instilled in them “rite of passage/hardknocks” living skills. DONT stick things in light sockets, DONT sew through your fingers etc…. Parents now days bubble wrap their children and subsequently they never truly mature as well rounded adults. Look at the statistics. Even so recent as the Vietnam era- men 18-22 fought valiantly in war, they got jobs, they bought houses and got married. Girls 18-22 got married, knew how to cook, clean, sew and keep a home. Now we have 40 year old boys living in moms basement gaming on the internet all day/night. We have 40 year old girls who watch disney, and play with coloring books “to relax and ease their anxiety”….. Sheeple minded, immature so called adults cant balance a checkbook to save their lives, let alone follow the stock market, invest in the future…. Yet these same sheeple yell at me because “I hurt their feelings/too judgmental”…. For my daughters, I see hope- for the rest of the mindless hoards- its a grim outlook…