Word: kiddingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demographic information garnered from tech-savvy, product-fickle kids is marketing gold, and the FTC knows it. Today, if a kid fills out a form to play an interactive game or join a chat room, his or her Internet habits can be captured, analyzed and sold ? and parents could find their offspring bombarded with all sorts of marketing malarkey. The new restrictions, which delineate the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Lost score is performed centuries after his death. The kid's got staying power...
Parents can also de-stress by cutting back on their children's activities. If keeping up with your kid's schedule is killing you, you might insist that he choose between karate lessons and the theater troupe. Parents should also sneak away from work and family occasionally to feed their own interests and have fun. I keep a basketball in the trunk of my car just for this purpose. The way I see it, there are things I may never be able to fix, at work or at home, but at least I can work on my jump shot...
...satyric in language as elaborate as any poet's or pedant's. Lo, 11 when the tale begins, and no scholar, must be limited in word power and storytelling skills. Yet the book's prose style, while undistinguished, is far too precocious and knowing for even the brightest kid. Lo could no more have written Lo's Diary than Harry Potter could have written the Harry Potter books...
...cynically, a movie sequel is just an attempt to extend the franchise created by a hit. And in this case, a franchise that sold millions of toys. When Buzz says dewily, "Life's only worth livin' if you've been loved by a kid," he is voicing either the sweetest sentiment ever or the canniest slogan for Toys...