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The advantages of raising kids without commercial TV seem obvious, and yet I know plenty of parents who express dismay as their children demand sugar-frosted sugar for breakfast, then expensive name-brand clothing, then the right to dress up as hookers not for Halloween but for school. (Letters).
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Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology
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September 22, 2002
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- Kingsolver, Barbara
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The advantages of raising kids without commercial TV seem obvious, and yet I know plenty of parents who express dismay as their children demand sugar-frosted sugar for breakfast, then expensive name-brand clothing, then the right to dress up as hookers not for Halloween but for school. Hello? Anyone who feels powerless against the screaming voice of materialistic youth culture should remember that power comes out of those two ...
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595 words
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TWELVE STEPS TO FOLLOW FOR RAISING KIDS
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August 28, 1996 ;
ANN LANDERS;
544 words
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