Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds / Susan Gregory Thomas.
TITLE:
Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds / Susan Gregory Thomas.
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin,
Physical Description:
276 p.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
It’s no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecurities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils the chilling fact that these corporations are using -- and often funding -- the latest research in child development to sell directly to babies and toddlers. Susan Gregory Thomas offers even more unnerving epiphanies: the lack of evidence that “educational” shows and toys provide any educational benefit at all for young children and the growing evidence that some of these products actually impair early development and could harm our kids socially and cognitively for life.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780618463510
