Article: Kid stuff: raising children in a consumer culture.(Book Review)

Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood.

By Susan Linn. New Press, 304 pp)., $24.95.

It's Not the Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence on Children.

By Karen Sternheimer. Westview Press, 288 pp., $26.00.

The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture.

By Gary Cross. Oxford University Press, 272 pp., $29.95.

AS THE CHRISTMAS SEASON ends and parents push their way through crumpled wrapping paper and parts of half-assembled toys, they may wonder: How did we get from a baby born in a manger to this? How did we reach the state where Care Bear Nativity sets, Chia pets and ...

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