“I’m sure that many here have dealt with family and appropriate gifts (i.e. wood vs. plastic, gentle toys vs. violent ones, etc.). I have wonderful in-laws who love my kids and my sister-in-laws kids equally (of course . And although absolutely wonderful, my in-laws want my kids to have similar, if not the same, things (to be equitable and since we have a different philosophy for raising children they want our kids to have as much as the cousins get). In light of the fact that my in-laws are very considerate how can we, my husband and I, help them to purchase gifts that are in line with our life philosophy, i.e. less is more, substance over quantity, etc., etc. I guess I would like

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I had a Barbie doll, actually, I had two or three and a Ken doll. But I received them when I was about 12 or 13. I remember listening to the Bay City Rollers, Leif Garret, Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb, pretending that the Ken was any of them (my teen idols) singing to me and I was the Barbie. At 15 or 16 our play developed into our dolls rolling

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