As the holiday marketing machine ramps up and the lists for Santa start to lengthen, Rona and I pause to reflect on what research shows contributes to materialism kids.
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Cross posted from the Greater Good Science Center.
Some students were talking about the Elf on the Shelf because they saw the movie the other night and how they have to have one and then said oh write a letter to Santa and drop it off at Macy’s. All I could think of is clever marketers.
very clever.