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Title: No more junk toys: rethinking children's gifts.(Special Report: Kids and Corporate Culture)
Author: Judith L. Rubin
Publication: Mothering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Mothering Magazine
Issue: 121 Page: 46(8)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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One night, not long after Christmas, my pacifist friends Jay Levy and Su Zuniga quietly crept down to the basement with a hammer while their three-year-old daughter, Samantha, slept. There, they methodically banged on the belly of her brand-new mechanical dog until it stopped yapping.
Another friend's daughter received a Victorian makeup table for her fourth birthday. "It's plastic, it's ugly, and it's huge. It's totally inappropriate for a four year old. Not to mention that my daughter is a tomboy," the mother said. When asked about the fate of the gift, she replied firmly, "It is going to 'disappear' very soon."
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