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Kids & Friends: The Power of Friendship
Cover of The Power of Friendship (5 Pack) Today I was struck by the beautiful power of friendship. Our family moved to a foreign country for over half a year, to a place where we didn’t know any other...
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Boy-vs-World
I recently talked about the Greatness Book for Boys. One of my pet peeves is when children are told that there is a certain range of interests that are for boys and another for girls. This limits the...
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Percy Jackson vs Transformers 3: Media Messages and Boys
This article is cross posted from the blog Marketing, Media, and Childhood written by Erin McNeill. I’ve been exploring the messages that media sends to boys about what it means to be male. Erin, along...
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Marketing and Kids: Can ethics beat out profit?
In this insightful article, David Sirota points out that since the 1970s consumer activists have had an on again off again battle with marketers on the issue of advertising to children. Regulations...
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Be the Change
After my last couple of posts about gender stereotypes forced on girls and boys, one of my readers, Phillip, made a great point. He said that the best way to help kids see that they can follow their...
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Are Princesses Really so Bad?!
If you read the review or information about the book Cinderella Ate my Daughter, you may be wondering, are princesses really that bad? Are they evil? Is it wrong to let my child play with anything...
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Sexy Horses and Trolls and Fairies, Oh My: Toys all Tarted Up
Hot-to-trot ponies? Dolls that wax? Toys get tarted up – Parenting – TODAYshow.com. In a story on the Today Show website, they show several examples of toys that are crazily sexualized, with even...
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What is sexualization anyway?
Since this blog has attracted a lot of new readers lately, I thought it was important to go back and revisit the idea of sexualization. I talk about it a lot, but new readers may be wondering, “Exactly...
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Fear of Fat: Preschool Girls and the Thin Ideal
In a study published in 2010, Dr. Jennifer Harriger, a colleague at Pepperdine University, looked at how much girls aged 3-5 had internalized the thin ideal (the idea that beauty in females = thinness)...
View ArticleThe Internet & Kids: Positive and FUN Website Resources
Along with pointing out media that may be promoting messages that you don’t agree with, I also like to point out positive options. Today I’d like to share several online communities and sites that...
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