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Be aware that corporate marketers will seek access to your kids
Never, ever doubt that corporations are always on the lookout for creative ways to market to your child in any venue they can – especially if they can do it when you are not there. My kids have become...
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Time to learn how to create your own video games
PD produces a video game at Khan Academy I told my 13-year-old son, PD, that if he was going to spend so much time playing video games, then he would have to learn how to program his own games. Because...
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On the impossibility of protecting children from media violence
I’m glad the kids prefer lacrosse to the major sports teams. When the kids were younger and watched football and baseball on television, there was a time when they were watching a game and a promo for...
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Zero tolerance: Punishing children for being children
Just after the 9/11 attack, a friend of mine watched a lot of television coverage. Then she noticed her 3-year-old child building Lego towers and flying little airplanes into them. Kids process their...
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Art inspired by marketers who unfairly target children
A special treat today. Works of art, one a poem and one a mixed-media drawing/collage, that draw inspiration from a sense that children are unfairly targeted by marketers in our society. “Touch-Me-Not”...
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Just a toy? No.
How many times have I read an article criticizing stereotyped toys and toy marketing followed by a bunch of comments to the effect that “Relax, it’s just a toy.” What these misguided commenters fail to...
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Parents see their children hurt by stereotyped toy marketing, demand that...
Some parents across the pond decided they have had enough of the gender-stereotyped toy marketing that is being pushed on their kids by retailers. They got organized, and less than a year ago, Let Toys...
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