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I just received a request to spread the word from CCFC (Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood). Here is what is going on… “In response to a complaint filed by CCFC in 2007, the Federal Trade Commission urged the Motion Picture Association of America—the self-regulating body of Hollywood movie studios that administers film ratings [...] Earlier this week on American Public Media’s Marketplace, I heard an excellent interview with James Gustave Speth, Dean of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. The ideas presented in the interview, Taking Stock: Rethinking Consumerism, support many of the concepts I have been writing about in Empowered by Play. Speth talks about over-consumption [...] Nostalgia is a funny thing…a wistful longing for innocent days gone by. In 2009, though, there is a new breed of nostalgia. The youngest generation of parents were raised in a world with hundreds of channels on cable TV, remote controls galore and the explosion of media-linked toys that came with the deregulation of children’s [...] About a year ago, when we moved from Boston to New York, we decided not to hook up the cable television. Before we moved, with babies in the house, we’d already cut back on TV watching. We always tried to mute all the commercials, but even with that my 3 year old sons could tell [...] Visit the toy aisles today and you will see dazzling purple and pink displays dappled with sparkles – and decidedly darker aisles dappled with weapons. The difference between “boy” toys and “girl” toys seems never to have been more obvious – or more ludicrous. There is the “Red Giant Slash” action figure from the Fisher-Price [...] Many of my childhood memories involve playing outside: crunching and jumping through leaves in fall, sledding and making snowmen in winter, hunting for 4 leaf-clovers in spring and curling dandelion stems in summer. (Just peel the dandelion stems into strips, drop them in water, and watch how they curl into incredible curly-cues. Very fun.) [...] LEGOs are great. You can build, create, change, rebuild and recreate endlessly. LEGOs have been around for a long time. In fact, a master carpenter in Denmark started the company in 1932 with wooden toys. Over the years, the company developed the system of interlocking bricks now used worldwide. Check out the company timeline. [...] A friend of mine returned from the grocery store the other day and was shocked to see the bag of apples she had picked up were actually, Disney apples. Arrrgh! This frustrated my friend, who is not a big fan of Disney and is conscious of media influences on her kids’ lives. “I can’t even [...] |
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