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S05 EP8: Martin Lewis

Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe

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Christmas Gift Giving

Present giving was originally a form of social banking. Ceremonial gift exchange is quite a good anthropological service that happened in society. But christmas has become a retail festival. Not all parents can afford to give their kids gifts. And we have to be careful about that, which is why the language that we should use is really important. I once, genuinely, for my telescho, did this experiment with young children. We got some huge boxes, cardboard boxes, and wrapped them,. i went to reception kids who knew it was ok but said they wanted to open them. They played for forty seven minutes with empty cardboard boxes. Andtil the end of class  they thought

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