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Virtual pet reality

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A mother recounts her experience of having to raise children in the digital pet era. Although, she finds virtual pets absurd and senseless, she manages to understand the needs of her daughter. She continues to find the time to teach responsibility regarding pets.

Author: Shelton, Sandi Kahn
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 1998
Social aspects, Toys, Mother and child, Mother-child relations, Virtual pets, Tamagotchi (Toy)

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The comeback kid: my daughter's energetic recovery left me exhausted

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A mother describes how her four-year-old daughter bounced back from a six-day bout with tonsillitis. Her daughter asked for a full breakfast early on a Saturday morning and was full of energy and desiring to make changes to her bedroom.

Author: Shelton, Sandi Kahn
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 1995
Column, Behavior, Children, Child behavior

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The far-out flu

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A mother humorously narrates her difficulty of relating to her daughter who is sick with flu. Ear clicking, stomach holes, bad throat and boiling brains are some of the flu-related symptoms her daughter has been complaining of.

Author: Shelton, Sandi Kahn
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 1998
Health aspects, Physiological aspects, Influenza, Daughters

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Subjects list: Personal narratives, Mothers
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