Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)
CCFC members all over the country are organizing local screenings of Consuming Kids. A screening is the perfect way to raise awarenss about the commercialization of childhood and to connect with other local parents and activists. To find out how you can host or attend a screening, please visit www.commercialfreechildhood.org
Well…
I’d imagine that, if parents taught their children to act responsibly, i.e. in a manner that gets them what they want, with due regard for both short-term and long-term happiness, and without harming others, then commercials would serve an unambiguously productive and positive purpose. And to the extent that they don’t, then those children have much more serious problems anyway.
But yes. Turn off the TV every once in a while. It’s that simple. There’s no need to get the state involved.
As a kid myself, its pretty weird for me that many kids I know fail to see that they are brain washed by advertising and garbage….they call me crazy for saying that they are blind to see what is good..they can all love transformers 2 but hate forest gump…i was like the only kid to say that has to be on of my favorite films in my school!They dont even know what good music is!They all love rap but do not care for lyrics but as long it is loud!
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Welcom to the machine.
@PanzerDivisionBOM I do agree I hate it when Government gets involved, but the problem here is the brainwashing of kids by marketing, these kids feel pressured into having the latest style, or ultimate gadget, if their parents don’t buy it for them, they feel that their parents are losers, boring etc. kids get stressed, depressed, etc. My kids are growing up in the 3rd world, this years I’am getting 1 thing only for Christmas, ( Bicycle ) and they are super excited about that.
I’m not saying that this isn’t a problem. I know that most parents aren’t going to take responsibility for their children, because humanity just isn’t that civilized yet. A lot of children are going to end up believing that virtue is a function of material wealth
If you think that this is a problem, then I suggest you converse with the people around you. Ask them about your and their childhood experiences. Think real hard about how you can best help your children get what they want out of life.
to gilgamesh1962 , thats the right way, i will do the same with my children! i will give them proper information, not disinformation, i will give them alot of love, and i wont compensate love with material things! thats just illusion!
i think it’s great to see this. It makes me feel very sane and wise cause i’ve been saying this for a couple or years. To my sisters and brother who all have kids. here in belgium things are gone very bad because of amricanized products and just well..shit all over the place. my own family doesn’t see this but i sure do. I don’t want to be a father but i’m actualy pretty damn sure i would be a good one. a lazy one. give your kid an instrument for fucks sake. let them listen some jazz !
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its a part of the agenda. you seem to be wise, please research the agenda, we must save the children.
@gilgamesh1962 yes we are being brainwashed. with many psychological tools in the media, besides what is obvious.
I think this video makes a point. I think that if kids were given limits on their T.V. viewing and taught that material wealth is not the key to happiness, it may reduce the chance of a super-comsumer generation.
It’s up to the parent’s to fix this. Up until the last minute or so of this video, I kept saying to myself, “So what?”. Finally, at the end, they explain. But the bottom line is that parents need to limited the interaction between their children and media outlets and they need to teach their children to be givers not takers. Parents are far too uninvolved these days.
My experience you ask? I am a Christian Family Counselor and Mother of 2
The solution can be simple. A first step would be to -Turn off your TV. -In fact, get rid of it. It is from TV that we are told and believe that chemical laden foods are actually GOOD for us, the message is sent to our kids that purchasing and having things are the way to be, then they mimic this in their own lives. Stop showing, stop teaching and you will remove the advertisers power over your children. People need to begin thinking for themselves and stop blindly believing everyone else.
Multidimensional ? No
And the amount of advertising and bombardment has skyrocketed
“No, its not perfect, but it is more acceptable to be different than it was when I was growing up. Just being a minority was an issue when I was growing up. Now, my kids hang with all different races.”
Yet things are way more conform these days
So how much has really changed ?
And many think they can be everything…. without having the talent
The media portrays “Yes, you can !” but is sending out un-selfaware messages
It’s a bombardment of images, and many thinking they are those images, but aren’t really
The media has a totally unhealthy affect on people, especially impressionable ones, atm
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And why shouldn’t they be ? They’re still getting alot of good downtime it seems !
This IS just plain weird….
this seems sad
@vivasmallmexico I don’t personally like rap, except 2pac, because his lyrics are good. :> [Hope u understand... >.>]
i would do anythign to keep my kids from watching all that Hannah Montanna Junk. No it’s not Miley’s fault. She just does what the script tells her to. 5 year old kids talk to me like they’re divas, ending every sentences with WHATEVER. geez. When they do. It means something’s wrong.
@vivasmallmexico Good on you.
@vivasmallmexico well said, glad to see that there open minded teenagers
that disney part at 2:33 is disgusting, they move like as if they have some kind of twitch disorder, so retarded…