Parenting and Family Life: January 2005 Archives

Over at Times Against Humanity, Earl has a good article up on marketing to kids.

The amount of money and expertise spent marketing to children -- who are mentally almost powerless against advertisers -- is really disturbing.

When I was packing for our trip, reader Sandy commented,

"Crayola makes that modelling clay. It beats PlayDoh hands down for airplane travel. I prefer PlayDoh for the kitchen table, but that Crayola stuff is GOLDEN for air travel."

Now I'm intrigued. What are the comparative merits of Crayola clay v. Play-Doh? Up to know I've just given Hambet homemade clay, but I hate the way it gets all sticky.

By the way, Hambet did great on the plane. The only difficult part was when he was wide awake and ready to be entertained, and I was falling asleep on my feet and too sleepy to read. A toy airplane, a couple of new books, and the airplane's music system all provided ample entertainment.