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...
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...
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...
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...