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• Say Hi To Grandma Through the Screen

  My three-year-old likes to show her grandparents her nursery school projects. Too bad they're in Virginia, and we're in New York. Seeing a construction paper elephant is a tough job when you're looking through a phone line. We're still working on that. But if an article in yesterday's New York Times is any indication, there may soon be a nation of toddlers who never have to use adjectives to tell Grandma about their new artistic creations. Grandma and Grandpa have gone digital so they can keep up with their grandkids living half a world away. Read More... Posted Nov 28 2008, 12:28 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: grandparents, family, Jeanne Sager, babysitter, grandma, phone calls, grandpa, kids on the internet, grandparents visiting, kids on the web, long distance family, long distance relationships, kids on the computer, web cam

• The 6 Creepiest Marketing Campaigns Aimed at Children

  Our friends at Cracked have done it again, revealing the dark forces at work against our children. Among the evils preying upon our kids? Lucky Charms, Abercrombie and Fitch, Santa Claus and Rachel Leigh Cook.   So what terrible things are they telling our children?   Read More... Posted Aug 11 2008, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with no comments Filed under: tv, santa claus, commercials, marketing, cereal, cracked, phone calls, ambercrombie and fitch, lucky charms, freddy kruger

• Wal-Mart Presents: Hannah Montana Wake-Up Calls!

  I take this personally—seeing as we share the same first name, and now every time I introduce myself to a girl under the age of 12, she starts calling me HaMo. I’ve been a silent victim of Miley Cyrus' rampant fame for far too long, and I’m fighting back! Today’s Washington Post had a story entitled “It’s Hannah Again. Should We Take This?” At first, I was terrified that the article would be about the popularity of the name Hannah for baby girls in the past five years. But what I found was even worse. Read More... Posted Aug 01 2008, 03:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: disney, shopping, teenagers, cell phones, Generation X, tweens, Wal-Mart, hannah montana, bad companies, back to school, miley cyrus, exploiting teens, shopping reminders, marketing to teens, phone calls, exploiting workers, wake-up calls