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Simple
Cardboard boxes, library books, empty plastic bottles, yarn, trees and parks, running errands with parents, helping with chores - those are the things that kids need to stimulate their young minds. Oh yeah, and decent food and a warm place to sleep and parents that don't abandon them or fight too much or drink too much or yell too much. And when they're older, somebody needs to teach them about the big bad wolf advertisers who prey on their weaknesses and try to sell them stuff they don't need. That's it. The rest of it is just stuff for parents to reassure themselves that they are middle class and good and not like those other people out there. But simple can be hard.