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Jelly Telly is online
Phil Vischer (creator of Veggie Tales) has started a great new online venture in recent months :: Jelly Telly.
On his blog last year he walked through several of the big problems facing kids and media – specifically Christian kids and Christian media.
One of the problems he points out is that Christians are defined by what [...]
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Abused at the Lehmann house
Aaron and/or Keri sent this to me. Looks like it was a couple years old…
love those kids.
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What kids really want this Christmas
The Simple Dollar shares several pointers on how to make Christmas much more meaningful this year.
First off they note, that the really meaningful Christmas gifts don’t come from MegaMart.
My wife and I take pleasure in creating homemade Christmas gifts, as do many of our friends. But even these are secondary to the time we spend [...]
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Using kids as buzz marketers
Corporate Babysitter shares a portion of a BBC documentary, “The Search for Cool” that shows “cool kids” as young as six being targeted to market toys and gadgets to their friends – specifically the Nintendo DS.
A few telling quotes:
“The street teams consist of ‘cool kids’.. who will represent the brands in a very vocal way [...]
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Toy alternatives
Here’s one for my cousin (and others with children) :
Unclutter and Lifehacker both have a number of great ideas for entertaining kids for cheap… without the TV.
For under a buck you can entertain your kids with:
Large cardboard boxes
Rubber band and pencil crazy bot
Paper poppers
Home Depot Kids Workshop
Planting something
and more…
I’d also like to add a [...]
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marketing to kids
Some great thoughts/information from the latest Nick and Josh podcast…
When TV was deregulated in 1984 – educational programming was no longer required – and “program length commercials were allowed.”
So shows like Care Bears were created not for educational purposes but to sell Care Bear products.
In 1988 a total of $100 million dollars was spent on [...]
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Hey there Brooklyn
Hey There Brooklyn
Brad’s posted a number of videos showing off my nephew and niece goofing off on YouTube. It’s amazing to think how the Internet has changed things. I remember back in the day we would have to record something to a video camera and then copy it to a VHS tape and snail mail [...]
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