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Opinion: Quotes of the week

"We have created a generation of toys that are unsocial, inflexible and tell our kids what to do" - Psychologist Kathy Hirsh-Pasek makes a case for the value of retro toys

"I want to look like 50 Cent and other black singers, because they have got good shapes" - Nine-year-old boy Ivans who is taking part in a body image workshop run by the Healing Factory

"I will follow my mother's footsteps" - The final line of a song about a child inspired by her mum becoming a suicide bomber on an Egyptian sing-along DVD found on sale in a shop in Leeds.

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