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Helping Their Heads to Look Ahead

While it is no doubt important to get the most out of the present while you are growing up, there is definite value to helping kids peer into the future and give thought to what may lie ahead for them. How can we create forward-looking children and adolescents? First, kids need help to cultivate ...
Reference | All Kinds of Minds

Building Your Child's Character

We live in a time when teaching our children to be virtuous is especially challenging. Youngsters are surrounded by political sound-bites; outlandish promises from advertisers; and television programming and films filled with lying, gratuitous violence and sex as entertainment. As a parent, you ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Appropriate Use of the Internet

Trying to find helpful information regarding appropriate use of the Internet by children can be a challenge for parents and educators. One helpful site is NetSmartz, www.netsmartz.org, which was created by a partnership of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the ...
Reference | American School Counselor Association

Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture

What You Can Do With hundreds of billions of dollars spent each year on advertising, it’s difficult to escape commercialism. Nevertheless, there are things parents, caregivers, and concerned citizens can do in the home and the community to stem commercialism’s reach into children’s ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

More Tips for Raising Healthy Kids in a Commercial Culture

Since there are so many opinions about how to raise healthy kids in a commercial culture, some of these suggestions even contradict each other. Don't worry - take them as a guide and a way to start thinking about this incredibly important issue. printable version Object en masse to ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

Facts About Marketing To Children

Children as Targets Advertising directed at children is estimated at over $15 billion annually – about 2.5 times more than what it was in 1992.1 Over the past two decades, the degree to which marketers have scaled up efforts to reach children is staggering. In 1983, they spent ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

Credit Cards on Campus

It's not only possible — but crucial — to teach teens good money habits before they go to college For a generation where "cash is so five minutes ago" and 18-year-old basketball stars flout $90 million sneaker deals, old school values like saving and long- term planning can ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

Back to School Buying Guide: For Eco-Savvy Parents and Their Kids

Your kids may not realize it, but the supply of environmentally sound, non-toxic school supplies is growing and branching into unusual areas. Cornstarch pens and rubber backpacks? It’s all part of the recent rise of sustainable businesses making eco-friendly alternatives to everything ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

How Do Our Kids Get So Caught Up in Consumerism?

In the Merck Family Fund’s Yearning for Balance national survey, 86 percent of people agreed or strongly agreed that "today’s youth are too focused on buying and consuming things." This is a touchstone issue for children and the future. The following book excerpt deals with ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream

Helping Kids Breathe Easier: Campaigns to Rid Schools of Toxins Promote Eco-Friendly Cleaners

Patti Wood has always been serious about keeping toxins away from her family. She cleans her house only with non-toxic, environmentally friendly cleaners, avoiding petrochemicals and other synthetic ingredients in favor of all-natural products. She keeps pesticides out of her yard and ...
Reference | Center for a New American Dream