Are Our Kids Becoming Too Commercialized?
Today’s marketing-driven media culture has a serious impact on our kids.
Childhood obesity, eating disorders, youth violence, sexualization, family
stress, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and rampant materialism are all
exacerbated by advertising and marketing. Concerned? Join the Westford Parent
Connection and the Westford Health Department Tuesday, January 24,
2012 for the presentation, Consuming Kids: The
Commercialization Of Childhood. The speaker is Dr. Susan
Linn, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and
co-founder and director of the Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC).
She has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing
on children. Dr. Linn’s talk is being held in the Stony Brook Middle School
auditorium, and will begin at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door. (The snow
date for this presentation is Wednesday, January 25, 2012.) For more
information, go to the CCFC’s website at http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/aboutus.htm
or contact Mary Anne Seraphin at mseraphin@comcast.net.
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