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Article On Pamela Paul’s book Parents, Inc.

There’s a great article/interview with Pamela Paul at the Campaign for Commercial  Free Children website. She has a new book out (due out next Tuesday) called  Parents, Inc.  that takes a look at the over-commercialization of parenting and babyhood.

We live in a world where $800 strollers are bought without a blink of the  eye, wipe warmers are ‘necessary’, diaper bags are a statement in style and can cost just as much as the stroller, and finding toys that aren’t electronic nearly impossible.

Surely there must be more (or less, depending on how you look at it) to parenting life than this?

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  1. Izzy said:

    Oh man….I’m so glad someone wrote a book about this. Not only is this sort of criticism befitting of parenthood and childhood but everything else, too. I’m constantly both amazed and disgusted at the plethora of choices we have as well as the willingness of people to plunk down insane amounts for money for the dumbest things. It will only end when the oil that is the backbone of our rabid consumerist society is no longer available to fritter away on such foolishness.

    If only people put as much energy into and emphasis on actual parenting as they do all the stupid stuff we’re urged to buy…

  2. Kris said:

    I SO want to read this! It has gone on my too-long reading list.

    I simply cannot believe sometimes that people buy all this *unnecessary* stuff. I read recently at the Imperfect Blog something about a $350 bouncy seat. Hello-I cannot even FATHOM spending that much on a frickin bouncy seat that the kid will use for a minimal amount of time. But that’s just me.



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