One sure way to gage the progress in the fight against marketing to children is to see what articles and blog posts come across our RSS feed. Here’s what we’ve seen in just the last couple weeks:

Facebook Wants Children — Yours — to Boost Ad Sales [BNET]

Food Makers Won’t Leave Your Kids Alone [Rodale.com]

Marketing Junk Food To Kids Is Evil [Care2]

Marketing to Tweens – making our kids grow up too fast [NJ.com]

Movies still sell smoking to our kids [WLTribune.com]

Are Advergames Fair Game for Kids? [Brand Channel]

Curbing Junk Food Marketing to Children [Eat Drink Better]

Time to crack down on child-focused ads [SFGate.com]

Is McDonald’s Betraying Our Kids By Barraging Them With Junk Food Ads? [Huffington Post*]

Children’s Internet Games — Health and Obesity [Patch.com]

McDonald’s aggressively markets to kids [Las Vegas Review-Journal]

Maybe Trix aren’t for Kids [insideawake]

Kid-baiting ads have gone too far [Salon]

Food, Advertising Reps Blast Proposed Guidelines for Marketing to Kids [Fox News]

*We have a no link policy for the Huffington Post. This is why. [video]

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