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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yesterday, the Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint against
Your Baby Can Read for false and deceptive marketing. The Today show did a
great follow up to their original exposé and we are already hearing from
parents who have been duped.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks to those of you who were so helpful
to us in this process. I expect that some of you will be hearing from the FTC.
If you are outraged on behalf of parents who shelled out $200 for what is
essentially snake oil, please add your names to our petition to the FTC. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To read our complaint please click <a
href="http://commercialfreechildhood.org/pdf/ybcrftccomplaint.pdf">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To read our press release please click <a
href="http://commercialfreechildhood.org/pressreleases/yourbabycanread.html">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To sign CCFC’s petition please click
<a
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/621/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6502">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To see the Today piece please click <a
href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42557517/ns/today-money/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Susan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;font-style:italic'>Susan Linn, Ed.D., is
Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Instructor in
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;font-style:italic'>Non-Profit Center<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>617-896-9370</span></font></i></em><font
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/">http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">info-childes@googlegroups.com</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">info-childes@googlegroups.com</st1:PersonName>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Roberta
Golinkoff</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, December 19, 2010
8:42 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">info-childes@googlegroups.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Language Stars</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Does anyone know anything about this language teaching program for
children that they can share with me?<br>
<br>
Best for the holidays!<br>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Roberta Golinkoff</st1:PersonName><br
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<br>
-- <br>
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph. D.<br>
H. Rodney Sharp Professor<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Education</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and Departments of Psychology
and Linguistics and Cognitive Science<br>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Delaware</st1:PlaceName>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Newark</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">DE</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">19716</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
Office: 302-831-1634; Fax: 302-831-4110<br>
Web page: <a href="http://udel.edu/~roberta/">http://udel.edu/~roberta/</a><br>
Author of "A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool: Presenting the
Evidence" (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:City>)<br>
<a href="http://www.mandateforplayfullearning.com/">http://www.mandateforplayfullearning.com/</a><br>
Please check out our doctoral program at <a
href="http://www.udel.edu/education/graduate/index.html">http://www.udel.edu/education/graduate/index.html</a><br>
The late Mary Dunn said, "Life is the time we have to learn."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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