[techweenie]

This is old news, and sadly, parents are not learning.

How many kids have been killed for shoes in the US? The numbers might surprise you. $200 Nikes and equally expensive Doc Martens for other neighborhoods... all necessities for kids at the very bottom of the economic scale.

Not to mention that those very $180 Nikes cost less than $4 to make in the third world...

I feel that too many parents fear their children and give them too much power. The Toyota commercial where the minivan "gives kids what they want" is a really offensive example, to me. There's a similar Hummer commercial...

This is the business I'm in, and it bothers me a lot that marketers are often the enemies of responsible parents.