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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.
  • yeah, exactly

    The sign language thing is exactly like with those other fancy languages like "Chinese" and "Spanish". I mean, I don't understand why anyone would bother to learn them when the world already has a perfectly good language. That's English, of course, and not that high-falutin' British kind -- regular good old American English.

    Exposing kids to those foreign sounds could hurt their proper development and screw up their whole life by giving them the notion that not everyone is the same. Can't have that at an early age!