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American Eagle 'down-sizing' into kids wear

Twenty-two employees researched kids at homes - and in school! - for a whole year.

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Sitter’s Checklist: Ronald McDonald on your child’s report card

McDonald’s advertises on public school report cards. You can run but you can’t hide. Check out the comments on the story and you’ll see that people are still missing the basic facts about the harm in marketing to kids.

Living in the Mall of America. For a week? “I won’t go insane. There’s too much fun to be had in this place.” (via Frugal for Life)

Teenagers are more worried about body image than the environment, school and peer pressure. Good thing there’s no outside pressure to, say, look a certain way.

Trade books, CDs, DVDs, and video games for free with Swaptree. You pay postage, they do the rest. Incredible. (via PHAT Mommy)

2 Responses to “Sitter’s Checklist: Ronald McDonald on your child’s report card”

  1. SoloMother Says:

    Arg! MacDonalds! Last night, the King of Everything (four years old) discovered how to make the radio on his CD player work. He came running in to tell me, “You know what, mama? MacDonalds is GOOD!”

    Apparently, he had heard the commercial that advertises how the dollar menu does farther, and pieced together that donating proceeds to charity made the corporation good.

    That was quite a conversation.

    Thank goodness we don’t have a television!

  2. Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter Says:

    SoloMother, thanks for stopping by and for the mention on your blog. Glad to meet you.

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