Comments on: Scholastic Books and Commercialism in Preschool: an Interview with Rebekah Cohen http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/ Anyone else find childhood a little stifling these days? Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:52:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mom http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-848 mom Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:45:16 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-848 Oooh, does this really "make trouble?" I hope so! Here is another trouble making interview I enjoyed recently: http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2008/072008/interview-linn.html Oooh, does this really “make trouble?”
I hope so!

Here is another trouble making interview I enjoyed recently:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2008/072008/interview-linn.html

]]> By: Me http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-837 Me Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:31:09 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-837 You gotta get a life... There are things worth getting upset about and there is making trouble for trouble's sake... Guess which side of the coin you're on! You gotta get a life… There are things worth getting upset about and there is making trouble for trouble’s sake… Guess which side of the coin you’re on!

]]> By: April Moore http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-333 April Moore Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:59:18 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-333 Hi. Thanks for the interesting, if troubling, interview with Rebekah Cohen. I am writing a piece on commercialism and preschools for an online pub for preschool teachers and parents. I would very much like to read Ms. Cohen's thesis and interview her. Could you please send me contact info for her? Thanks very much. (This comment, obviously, is not for publication on your site. I didn't know any other way to contact you.) Hi. Thanks for the interesting, if troubling, interview with Rebekah Cohen. I am writing a piece on commercialism and preschools for an online pub for preschool teachers and parents. I would very much like to read Ms. Cohen’s thesis and interview her. Could you please send me contact info for her? Thanks very much. (This comment, obviously, is not for publication on your site. I didn’t know any other way to contact you.)

]]> By: Not the Mama http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-177 Not the Mama Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:50:39 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-177 Excellent interview. So interesting, and so appalling. I think the things she said that struck me the most, was the fact that it all seems so innocuous until you are looking for it. I know this stuff leaps out at me when I see it, but most of the parents/nannies I know don't give it a second thought. Excellent interview. So interesting, and so appalling. I think the things she said that struck me the most, was the fact that it all seems so innocuous until you are looking for it. I know this stuff leaps out at me when I see it, but most of the parents/nannies I know don’t give it a second thought.

]]> By: blue milk http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-175 blue milk Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:26:51 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-175 Fantastic work, well done with the interview and sooooooooooo interesting. Fantastic work, well done with the interview and sooooooooooo interesting.

]]> By: Midodok http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-174 Midodok Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:14:07 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-174 This blog is so interesting. I'm so glad that I came across it! Thanks for putting that interview up for all of us! This blog is so interesting. I’m so glad that I came across it! Thanks for putting that interview up for all of us!

]]> By: mom http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-172 mom Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:03:15 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-172 This is GREAT Amy - thank you and I'll have Rebekah Cohen contact you - she's fantastic, you're fantastic, perfect! This is GREAT Amy - thank you and I’ll have Rebekah Cohen contact you - she’s fantastic, you’re fantastic, perfect!

]]> By: mom http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-171 mom Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:16:19 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-171 OMG - Josh, you're like a celebrity to me ;-) I'll be in touch! OMG - Josh, you’re like a celebrity to me ;-)
I’ll be in touch!

]]> By: Josh Golin http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-170 Josh Golin Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:12:46 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-170 Great interview! And great blog! If you want to talk more about Scholastic before your meeting, let me know. Josh Golin Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Great interview! And great blog!

If you want to talk more about Scholastic before your meeting, let me know.

Josh Golin
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.

]]> By: Shaping Youth http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-168 Shaping Youth Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:52:45 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/commercialism-in-preschool-an-interview-with-rebekah-cohen/2007/11/01/#comment-168 Excellent piece...It actually gets even worse, with tissue boxes plastered w/cartoon characters as freebies in the classroom for flu season to have brand entry...they call them "mini-billboards" check this site/strategy here: http://www.tissueboxadvertising.com I plan on doing an in-school commercialism story soon on 'selling adolescence' and was wondering if your contact might have research in that realm to assist? (especially if she's now based in S.F...we should meet, I could sure use a hand over here at Shaping Youth! Meanwhile, to your points above, I interviewed Paula, President of YALSA on this issue a bit, as well as Mike Berenstain of the Berenstain Bears, since I've been vehement about the ludicrous notion of Bratz dolls and such showing up at Scholastic book fairs...(not to mention the fact that those book fairs are becoming like shopping malls with toys and gimmicks as 'value adds' instead of quality content and worthy prose) but they both pretty much position the behemoth distribution channel as the golden handcuffs and so I think it's up to us as parents to weigh in here and be heard! p.s. For your readers: Here's the 'Bears' interview on Shaping Youth addressing preschool/commercialism: http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=691 and here's the YALSA President for Teen Read Week: http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=713 Excellent piece…It actually gets even worse, with tissue boxes plastered w/cartoon characters as freebies in the classroom for flu season to have brand entry…they call them “mini-billboards” check this site/strategy here:
http://www.tissueboxadvertising.com

I plan on doing an in-school commercialism story soon on ’selling adolescence’ and was wondering if your contact might have research in that realm to assist? (especially if she’s now based in S.F…we should meet, I could sure use a hand over here at Shaping Youth!

Meanwhile, to your points above, I interviewed Paula, President of YALSA on this issue a bit, as well as Mike Berenstain of the Berenstain Bears, since I’ve been vehement about the ludicrous notion of Bratz dolls and such showing up at Scholastic book fairs…(not to mention the fact that those book fairs are becoming like shopping malls with toys and gimmicks as ‘value adds’ instead of quality content and worthy prose) but they both pretty much position the behemoth distribution channel as the golden handcuffs and so I think it’s up to us as parents to weigh in here and be heard!

p.s. For your readers: Here’s the ‘Bears’ interview on Shaping Youth addressing preschool/commercialism:

http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=691

and here’s the YALSA President for Teen Read Week: http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=713

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