Buy Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds by Susan Gregory Thomas

The title of this book is a dead give away to its purpose and the jacket copy introduces the topic succintly. "An investigative journalist examines how marketers exploit infants and toddlers and...

I love playing with my baby. We sit on the floor and sing together, roll a ball, rock a doll, stack blocks, and bang toys against each other. It has been a long time since I was a child myself, though. Sometimes when I'm feeling tired and uncreative, I need some inspiration for fun games to play...

Sigh. If only making "good choices" for your child's nutrition was as easy as ordering the selections off the kids menu in a restaurant.

I've been reading several books on toddler food and they all agree that some of the foods that is marketed to children is actually not very nutritious. Since...

One of my fondest childhood memories is listening to music and singing along with my parents. We had the usual "children's" music on records or tapes, but we would also listen to grown up music together, like oldies or showtunes too.

Growing up with showtunes is fun because when you finally see...