July 2010
Featuring:
- Worried About Young Children's Screen Time? Here's What You Can Do
- Currently In the CCFC Blog
-No More Delays! Tell Federal Agencies to Release Food Marketing Standards
- Now Showing on YouTube: Lenore Skenazy's CCFC 2010 Summit Keynote
- Meet Kevin Hepner: CCFC's Newest Steering Committee Member
- Broad Coalition of Advocates Asks FTC to Update Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
June 2010
Featuring:
- CCFC's Fiscal-Year-End Campaign: Help Put Us Over the Top
- It's Here! The Brand New CCFC Blog
-Addicting Games Update: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- CCFC's Enloa G. Aird Launches Mothers for a Human Future
- CSPI Threatens to Sue McDonald's Over Happy Meals
- Licensed Characters on Food Packaging Affect Kids' Taste Preferences, Snack Selections
- The Centre for Child Honouring Launches Children & Nonviolence Initiative
- CCFC Appreciation: Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.
May 2010
Featuring:
- Stop the Marketing of PG-13 Movies to Young Children
- AddictingGames.com: Nickelodeon Still Doesn't Get It
- The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity Takes a Strong Stand on Screen Time
- Upcoming Event: Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture
- Consuming Everything: CCFC and the Oil Spill by Susan Linn, Ed.D.
April 2010
Featuring:
- The Reviews are in: CCFC's 7th Summit a Smash Hit!
- Have You Voted Yet? TOADY Polls Close May 10
- Santa Clara County Passes Landmark Happy Meal Toy Ban
- New Witness for Childhood Website Continues CCFC Summit Conversation
- Legislation Policy Brief: Advertising in Schools
-Television Food Marketing to Children Revisited
- Quick Hits
March 2010
Featuring:
- CCFC and Disney: Thank You So Much for the Support
- Children, Commercialism, and Environmental Sustainability
- CCFC Asks FCC to Help Parents Protect Children
- Let’s Move – Will it Move the Food Industry?
- New Research: Food Industry Self-Regulations Are Not Working
-Truth and Consequences by Susan Linn, Ed.D.
December 2009
Featuring:
- Lets Keep the Pressure on Nick: No Violent, Sexualized Videogames for Young Children
- AAFP Pushes Ahead with Coke Sponsorship
- New Report Demonstrates Food Industry Self-Regulation Has Failed; Junk Food Still Extensively Marketed to Children
- Send in your nominations for CCFC's 2nd Annual TOADY Awards
- Recommended Reading on the Web
- Support CCFC's Year-End Campaign
November 2009
Featuring:
- CCFC's Consuming Kids Summit: New Presenters Added; CEUs Available
- Great Resources for the Holidays
- Looking for Parents/Students/Teachers to Help Stop Channel One
- Three New Studies Raise Concerns About Screen Time and Young Children
- Things We Wish We Didn't Know
- A Sad Day for Families: NIMF to Close after 14 Incredible Years
- Is There a Future for Ad-Free Children's Media?
October 2009
Featuring:
-FTC Agrees to CCFC Request for PG-13 Movie Marketing Investigation
-Have You Registered Yet? CCFC's Super Early Bird Flies Away November 1
-Kids Spend More Than One Full Day Per Week Watching TV
-New Study Finds Least Healthy Cereals Most Heavily Marketed to Children
-Things We Wish We Didn't Know
-Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World
-More on Baby Einstein...and Why it Matters
September 2009
Featuring:
-The Song is Over for BusRadio
-CCFC Honored by Psychologists for Social Responsibility
-Have You Seen Consuming Kids?
-Coalition Demands FCC Action on Product Placement
-Smart Choices? An Interview with CSPI's Michael Jacobson
-Parental Control Company Sells Data on What Kids Say
July 2009
Featuring:
-CCFC's End-of-the-Fiscal-Year Fundraiser - Thank You!
-Get Involved! Stop PG-13 Blockbusters from Targeting Preschoolers
-Commercial Radio on School Busses is Not in the Public Interest
-FCC Inquiry into Children's TV
-Recommended Listening: The Healthy Media Choices Hour
-Recommended Reading: Ad Nauseam
-CCFC on Twitter
June 2009
Featuring:
-Transformers Marketing Still Not Transformed: CCFC Urges FTC to Act
-Commercial-Free Play: Retro or Revolutionary
-Commercial Radio on School Busses is Not in the Public Interest
-CCFC's Father's Day Appeal to President Obama Delivered to the White House
-Only Hours Left!
May 2009
Featuring:
-Urge President Obama to Help Families Protect Children from Commercialism
-Teachers to Scholastic: Don't Use Us to Market Toys, Make-up and Brands toChildren in School
-Consuming Kids Opens to Rave Reviews
-Recommended Reading
-Upcoming Events
-Crisis in the Kindergarten: A New Report on the Disappearance of Play
-CCFC's End-of-the-Fiscal-Year Campaign
April 2009
Featuring:
-Consuming Kids Sweeps the Nation
-CCFC Blasts New Hasbro/Discovery Channel Children's Network
-SpongeBob SquareButts: An Update
-Marin Institute Publishes New Guide for Regulating Alcohol Advertising
-Obligation, Inc. Catches Channel One Promoting Drinking Quiz Website
-Book Review: Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry by Lenore Skenazy
-CCFC Member Spotlight: Ashley Streetman
March 2009
Featuring:
-CCFC Urges PBS Sprout to Put The Good Night Show to Bed
-FCC to Conduct BusRadio Study Requested by CCFC
-Teachers Tell Scholastic to Shape Up!
-Hardy Girls, Healthy Woman Says No Makeover for Dora
-Celebrate Turnoff Week: April 20-26
-Editorial: Dora the Ex-Explorer by Susan Linn
February 2009
Featuring:
-Update: Putting the Book Back in Book Club
-Shape Up Scholastic: A New Group on Facebook
-Save the Date: CCFC's Next Consuming Kids Summit April 8-10, 2010
-CCFC 2008 Summit Presentations Now on YouTube
-News Roundup
-Book Review: The Sexualization of Childhood, edited by Sharna Olfman
January 2009
Featuring:
-Have You Voted Yet? TOADY Polls Close Feb 8
-Food Company found Guilty of Violating Kid Ad Ban
-New Review Finds No Benefit, Possible Harm from Baby Videos
-Quick Reads on the Web
-Book Review: Living Without the Screen by Maria Krcmar
-EDITORIAL: Protecting the First Daughters (and Other Kids, Too) by Susan Linn
