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As with so many ideas, one generally lead to another and another, and her parents probably started adding all kinds of ideas to whatever the first one was, and all their ideas would overwhelm and ruin the girl’s own original idea and plan. As a parent I have been criticized by my own kids for doing just that-taking their own idea and then making it “mine” (a parental risk when one wants to “help.”) The image here with “baby ideas” seems a bit awkward, somehow.