Topic: Susan Linn
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Modern Parenthood Tooth fairy: Toy industry wants to monetize the "holiday moment"
The tooth fairy is one of the least commercialized family traditions. Now 'The Real Tooth Faires LLC' brings what one expert calls "an amalgam of the worst trends in the toy industry ... every known money-making ploy in a pseudo-sweet ambiance ... full of gender stereotyping and sexualization.'
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Your Baby Can Read company folds after high-cost complaints
Your Baby Can Read, a literacy program for infants, faced criticism from advocacy groups and a possible Federal Trade Commission investigation for making false and deceptive claims.
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Toddlers to tweens: relearning how to play
Children's play is threatened, say experts who advise that kids – from toddlers to tweens – should be relearning how to play. Roughhousing and fantasy feed development.
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Cover Story The games kids no longer play
Experts say the more creatively children play, the less lucrative it is for toy makers. They advocate returning to the games kids no longer play.
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When kids become tickets to fame
Today's short route to celebrity: flaunting children as accessories.
02/08/2010 02:29 pm -
Chapter & Verse Too many toys, too few books?
06/08/2009 01:00 am -
Chapter & Verse Scholastic rebuked for using book clubs to market toys
02/09/2009 12:00 am
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