Baltimore Sun blog Dealing with the gimmes: the Monday Consult Assistant professor of sociology Allison Pugh, author of the soon-to-be-published book "Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture," advises how to handle children's refrains of 'gimme' from now until Christmas http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimoremomblog/2008/11/dealing_with_the_gimmes_the_mo.html