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The parent trap
As the market for infant products grows ever more absurd, author Pamela Paul takes on $800 strollers, Gymboree and the bamboozle that is Baby Einstein.
By Katharine Mieszkowski [2008-03-29]

  • wouldn't baby sign language retard a kid's talking?

    I don't know; I don't have kids and I'm not a pediatrician.

    But it seems that if a kid learns how to make signs for various things he wants and Mommy jumps up and gets those things for him, he doesn't have as much incentive to learn to speak clearly.

    (My very earliest memory is of incredible frustration. I was laying on my back in the stroller, unable to lift myself up to where I could stick my hand in a rip in the stroller lining--it was navy blue vinyl, there was an L-shaped rip in it, and the padding inside was a green foam--and trying to make my Dad understand that I wanted to be lifted up THAT FAR and NO FURTHER so I could feel the green stuff. I don't know how old I would have been at the time, but I talked at eight months and haven't shut up since.)

    -- Leeandra Nolting
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    Friday, March 28, 2008 06:58 PM
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