Hilltown Families

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...