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A pinata used to be considered good clean fun at a kids birthday party, but not it today's society. Some parents are afraid that allowing their kids to whack away at a paper mache model of their favorite super hero or cartoon character could turn their sweet little angles into raving psychopath.

They feel that piñatas are just too violent . . . if a kid learns it's okay to hit a paper-mache Dora the Explorer with a bat, who's to say he won't smack a human with one?
Hence the new trend of no-hit pinatas.  In order to get his sugar high all junior needs to do is pull a string. I don't know about you, but I'm all about litting my son whack a paper mache Elmo with a bat.  I guess because I feel that if you do a little parenting, your kid will know the difference!
So not only are the kids begin taught laziness by these no hit pinatas, parents are too.

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