The Common Good
January 2009

A Conversation with Valerie Weaver-Zercher about parenting without labels

by Jeannie Choi | January 2009

Listen in as Valerie Weaver-Zercher shares how she avoids "branding" her children while raising them in a label-obsessed world.

Listen in as Valerie Weaver-Zercher shares how she avoids "branding" her children while raising them in a label-obsessed world. To read her article about avoiding parental consumption in the January 2008 issue of Sojourners, click here.

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