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Growing up, I was no different from most kids in that I despised trips to the dentist’s office. When the little reminder postcard arrived in the mail, I would try to hide it in a stack of bills, just praying that my parents wouldn’t notice. But to no avail – I always wound up being dragged to the familiar waiting room. My dread would subside, however, as soon as I remembered the stockpile of Highlights magazines for kids in the corner.
Unlike my mother’s fashion magazines and my dad’s golf journals, these mags contained stories that appealed to my age group. Looking back, I’ve come to realize how many lessons I learned just from reading Highlights. The publishers recognized that children have a hard time discerning irony, so they laid things out their moral lessons in black-and-white terms that were relatable to kids.
