<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/03066894-8954-48de-a719-592452931255/C337CB0F-A927-4EC8-BB52-C3A531CEECFE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/07/segments/102906" href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/07/segments/102906" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wnyc.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/07/segments/102906"><P>When my son was a baby I read a book called "How to raise a brighter child", by Joan Beck. </p> <P>Despite the pompous name it is the smartest book on child education I read. One of the advices that I've never forgot was to buy toys that are 5% toy and 95% child. So we bought him Legos, books, other things that make him work. He only had a folding umbrolla for a carriage and second hand clothes.</p> <P>My son is now 33, graduated with honors from an Ivy League school, decided that he didn't want to work in front of a computer eight hours a day, and went to grad school where he studied architecture.</p> <P>He doesn't own a TV set, and is the most moral person I know. </p> <P>Parents should spend more time on the floor with their kids or reading them Dr. Seuss books and less time driving their SUVs to stores and shop for ridiculous stuff.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C337CB0F-A927-4EC8-BB52-C3A531CEECFE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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