Public radio stations offer a daily stream of information, bringing with it nearly endless learning potential. Listen Current offers educators short public radio news stories alongside resources for facilitating learning...
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...
Category: Family, Marketing to Children, Media, Take Action Tags: Barack Obama, Commercialism of Childhood
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...
Category: Entertainment, Family, Marketing to Children, Media, Suggested Activity
Books, Movies & TV Shows with a Green Message Common Sense Media has compiled a list of “green” books, movies and TV shows, just in time for Earth Day: Best Green...
Category: Books, Ecology, Education, Entertainment, Family, Media, Movies, Reading Lists
THE SHOPOCALYPSE IS UPON US … WHO WILL BE $AVED? There’s a new documentary film out that I’d like to catch, What Would Jesus Buy, produced by Morgan Spurlock (the same...
Category: Entertainment, Film, Hilltown Families, Holidays, Media, Movies, Religion, Take Action, Video Tags: Christmas, Commercialization of Christmas, Shopping, What Would Jesus Buy
Kellogg to Curb Marketing of Foods to Children [NY TIMES, Andrew Martin – 6/14/07] Froot Loops’ days on Saturday morning television may be numbered. The Kellogg Company announced today that it...
Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t When you were a kid, children’s movies and television didn’t have many females or characters of color. That’s all changed for today’s kids, right?...
WHAT’S A GIRL (AND PARENTS) TO DO? Our young girls (and our larger population) are bombarded with media images of sexualized feminine esthetics. You see it everywhere: in line at the...
Category: Girls, Health & Wellness, Links, Media, Personal Development
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