http://outside-the-toybox.com/mom-vs-the-marketers-the-limits-of-media-literacy/2007/08/05/ Anyone else find childhood a little stifling these days? Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:42:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://outside-the-toybox.com/mom-vs-the-marketers-the-limits-of-media-literacy/2007/08/05/#comment-4 Tracy Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:09:34 +0000 http://outside-the-toybox.com/mom-vs-the-marketers-the-limits-of-media-literacy/2007/08/05/#comment-4 If the cereal aisle wasn't bad enough on its own---in my local supermarket (which I only go to when Trader Joe's doesn't have something) the CANDY is directly across the aisle from the cereal. Marshmallows, Twizzlers, M&Ms--you name it. So, trying to distract the kids while zooming past the Coco Puffs on your way to the Kashi isn't enough---now you have to try to visually block both sides of the aisle! If the cereal aisle wasn’t bad enough on its own—in my local supermarket (which I only go to when Trader Joe’s doesn’t have something) the CANDY is directly across the aisle from the cereal. Marshmallows, Twizzlers, M&Ms–you name it. So, trying to distract the kids while zooming past the Coco Puffs on your way to the Kashi isn’t enough—now you have to try to visually block both sides of the aisle!

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