In this final installment, let’s look at a couple of the really dirty tricks that MLM companies pull. They try to confuse you about money, and they try to pass exploiting women off as women’s empowerment. It’s appalling how low they will go!

MLM companies tell big lies to prop up their business model. They exploit their participants, and they prey on vulnerable people.

If all you’ve ever heard is their sales pitch, you may be surprised at these claims. But I’m going to show you just what I mean!

No one wants to think they are a member of a vulnerable population preyed on by unscrupulous companies.

Well, I know I don’t want to feel that way! I’m smart about advertising, savvy about the Internet, and feel confident about my place in the world.

I’m not, like, a victim. Or a target. Or a mark for a con artist.

And yet I can tell that I am a member of a vulnerable population by how many multi-level marketing (MLM) companies are swirling around me and my friends.

If only kids came with an instruction manual!

Okay, I admit that the daily practical care of babies could use a manual. We are so disconnected from family and community that some people become parents without ever seeing a diaper changed. Things like diaper changing, baby wearing, and funny rhyming games to play with your baby could all go in a manual.

But I hear this lament over more behavioral-based questions, and it’s sad how much we’ve lost our way.

Because it turns out that kids DO come with a manual.

I’ll tell you a story to show you what I mean.

“They’re just doing that for attention!”

Somehow when you hear this admonishment you’re supposed to take that as a cue to ignore your child.

Which is deeply weird.

If your child is doing something for attention…

And they are communicating that SO clearly…

SO clearly that EVERYONE can tell…

Then how about you just give them some attention!