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Entries from March 2008

Competitive Parenting As Child’s Play

March 24th, 2008 · 26 Comments

If April is the cruelest month, March has to be the strangest. At least, this March: What a strange few weeks it’s been. Silda Spitzer stands by Eliot; Gilligan’s Mary Ann is a stoner.
Then, last night, as I was watching my daughter thumb through a new catalog from a local toy store, I noticed small [...]

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Tags: Children · Parenting · Pop Culture

What Is a Friend?

March 16th, 2008 · 35 Comments

My friend and colleague Shelley and I are taking our two girls to a company “junket” we’ll both be attending next month in southern California. (We’re calling the two of them the MarketingProfs “Web 3.0″ team.)
The girls are 9 and 11 and live, respectively, in Texas and Massachusetts. Kinsey (the 9-year-old) and Caroline (age 11) [...]

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Tags: Children · Social Media · Technology

Me and TomTom—True Love Always

March 7th, 2008 · 29 Comments

Around Christmas, I met TomTom. We’ve been inseparable ever since.
TomTom, if you don’t know, is a portable GPS navigation system. It mounts on the car dashboard, and its voice commands guide you to your destination. For someone like me—I get lost finding my way back to the table after a visit to the restaurant bathroom—it’s [...]

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Tags: Pop Culture · Technology