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"Good news for all you former Babysitters&amp;#039; Club fans: As I think I&amp;#039;ve mentioned before, the series is being re-issued with snappy new covers on April 1, with a new prequel and revised editions of the 131 original titles. But what&amp;#039;s really interesting, as writer Laura Vanderkam points out in today&amp;#039;s Wall Street Journal (&amp;quot;How to Pay for Your Own Uggs&amp;quot;), is the very idea behind the series and what it might say to a new crop of readers. The basic premise: Five preteens band together to solve a problem in the marketplace, which is that parents have to place a lot of calls to find a babysitter, and the girls sometimes miss out on gigs if they aren&amp;#039;t available. So they form a babysitting club to pass referrals to one another, meaning parents need only make one call. And they make money! Vanderkam rightly points out that many parents don&amp;#039;t think 12-year-old girls today are capable of even walking to school alone, let alone babysit! Did you, at that age? Would you let your daughter? Would you hire a tween babywrangler? Here&amp;#039;s hoping the new series inspires a new batch of entrepreneurial young girls \u2014 and that the nervously protective marketplace will let them! \u2013Paula Spencer, WD &amp;quot;Momfidence&amp;quot; columnist "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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