Trying to wrap my head around how to pin unique items when spawned together

So I've had mixed results and I can't seem to figure out how to make it consistent.

what i'm trying to do is simply spawn a new object and pin some text to that object.. sometimes it seems to stick.. but other times what i'm seeing is all of the text objects bind to the first object in the scene, even though the item spawns ON each of the unique objects.

I just can't wrap my head around how when something is spawned it knows to grab THAT copy of a thing and associate with it reliably.

I tried families but families don't seem to see text objects. I'm using pin and it works, but in this case it's like the second text object pins to the wrong copy.

and disregard the numeric values.. that's unrelated.

It's much easier to do with hierarchy.

dropbox.com/s/f49cdro2vrf89hq/Hierarchy_demo.c3p

Another option is to use a container, but you'll still have to position all objects and pin them.

In preview, when the screen goes black, press F12 and check console log for error messages.

yea that worked, but it was pretty cryptic.. to be sure (i'm on Mac)

still good to know.. i'm going to start my prototype over and focus on this working well first.. probably just trying to lay a new concept on a bunch of other stuff that will take longer to re-engineer than just start fresh.