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How to Raise an Educated Consumer
Children, from the day they are born, are significant consumers. Think of the newborn in her crib complete with a ...
Source: NYU Child Study Center
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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 ...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
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Kids and Commercialism Action Tips
Is it possible to raise independent-minded kids in this highly commercialized culture? We think so. Our Kids and ...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
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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 ...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
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Facts About Marketing To Children
Children as Targets Advertising directed at children is estimated at over $15 billion annually – about ...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
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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 ...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
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What is Media Literacy?
Most media messages are constructed with a purpose. Media literacy can help youth understand messages — actual or ...
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Parents and Media
Today's children live in a media environment with choices unlike anything their parents ever experienced. Parents' ...
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Finding Other Resources - A Newsletter for Parents of Fifth Grade Children
What Do You Think? Mr. Baker and Mrs. Cooper are sitting next to each other at a school sports event. Mr. ...
Source: Iowa State University Extension
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Advertising and Decision-making - A Newsletter for Parents of Third Grade Children
What Do You Think? Wesley and Mom are at the local store shopping for some new spring clothes. Wesley says, ...
Source: Iowa State University Extension
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Economic Production
Closely related to the concept of scarcity is the concept of production. The function of production, to some extent, is ...
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Explaining Media's Effects
Why do media have the effects they do? Let's consider several explanations. First, children are very capable of ...
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5 Ways to Cope with Kids' Recession Worries
Some kids may feel more stressed than others in this tough economic climate.. Here are some tips parents can follow to ...
Source: Education.com
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Ads are Selling U.S. Kids Poor Health
Children and adolescents are being bombarded by so many ads that medical experts now fear for their health. Some 40,000 ...
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Making Decisions and Spending - A Newsletter for Parents of First Grade Children
What Do You Think? Christie and her mom are shopping for groceries and Christie asks, "Could we ...
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Sixth Grade: Choices and Stress
Choices Your child has roughly 80 hours a week to do things. Subtract 50 hours for school, homework and chores. This...
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How Can I Help My Family Use Print Media Safely?
As with any media your children use, CMCH recommends that parents do their homework and find out more about the content...
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Understanding Advertising - A Newsletter for Parents of First Grade Children
What Do You Think? Melissa and her little sister Shelley are all settled in for a Saturday morning ...
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Four Steps to a More Meaningful, Less Commercialized Holiday — With Kids
With its focus on family and faith, December should represent an ideal opportunity to model and teach simplicity's...
Source: Center for a New American Dream
