Hilltown Families

Kids Spoon-Fed Marketing and Advertising for Least Healthy Breakfast Cereals The least healthy breakfast cereals are those most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children as young as age two, finds...

President Obama is a Parent Too By The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood “I worry that even if Michelle and I do our best to impart what we think are important...

Marketing Earth Day (and Other Stuff) to Children By Susan Linn and Josh Golin Have you done your Earth Day shopping yet? Between greeting cards, jewelry, mugs, and teddy bears commemorating...

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood to Nick and Burger King: SpongeBob and Sexualization Don’t Mix The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) has launched a letter-writing campaign demanding that Nickelodeon and...

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood New Documentary Film Premiering in Northampton (2009) “The consumer embryo begins to develop during the first year of existence.  Children begin their consumer journey in...

Dora Falls into Marketer’s Tween-hood Trap She’s been a bilingual world explorer and a problem-solver extraordinaire.  She’s shouted, “Let’s go!” and set off with her compass, backpack, and sidekick monkey.  She’s...

Thanks to Sue Cairan from the Hampshire Educational Collaborative for sending this in: February 24th, 2009 -(Source: Join Together) Join underage drinking prevention advocates in calling on the teen accessory store...

CCFC 2009 TOADY Award On February 15, the Toy Industry Association will gather to present their TOTY (Toy Of The Year) Awards. But first, in honor of the industry that has...

The following lecture is happening on November 24th, 2008: Remote Control Childhood: How Disney Princesses and Darth Vadar Contribute to Bias and Anti-Social Behavior … and What You Can Do About...

CCFC to Toy Marketers: Leave Kids Alone during Economic Crisis; Companies Urged to Target Parents Instead this Holiday Season As families struggle to cope with the global economic crisis, the Campaign...

You Did It: Scholastic Expels the Bratz From Schools By CCFC Thanks to you, Scholastic, Inc. will no longer be promoting the highly sexualized Bratz brand in schools. In April, 2007,...

It’s Official: Big Food Targets Kids by Michele Simon It’s a rare day when I think the Federal Trade Commission has actually performed a valuable public service and lived up to...

Dear Dr. Bryant, I am writing to urge the National School Boards Association to disavow its report, "Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social -- And Educational -- Networking," which...

Marketing the Sexualization of Young Girls One of the most recent calls for action by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has encouraged concerned parents to tell Scholastic to stop distributing...