Parents of the NYT

This quote encapsulates what bothers me about all of the recent NYT articles about parenting:

'Sonia, for one, likes to contribute her two cents. “It’s nice because I feel like I’m not being spoken down to,” she said. “Ninety-five percent of the time I feel most kids are spoken down to.”'

In other words, the children represented by the article--those whose parents look to them for advice about what the hippest consumer products are, basically--make up about 5 % of the population (if we, like her mother, think Sonia knows what's what; which, apparently, I do, at least in this case).