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Article Excerpt
When our son Drake was on the way, certain policies and principles regarding his childhood scarcely needed to be spoken--indeed, to mention them aloud would have seemed coarse, even insulting. For example:
WE WILL NOT CENSOR BOOKS AND TOYS.
But because Bruce has been through this business twice before (with Alex, now 24, and Spencer, 15), he might have winced a bit at such a declaration. He is aware of something he calls the "Berenstain Loophole," first invoked shortly after Alex's second birthday. On that occasion, one of Alex's pals (with witless parents, obviously) slipped a wrapped package of two Berenstain Bears books in amongst the other guests' gifts of Hot Wheels racers and Playmobil emergency vehicles. Alas, Bruce--naif that he was--had no idea such ... printed matter existed, so he failed to pounce and destroy until it was too late: Alex got his mom to read him...
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