life with kids

Christmas is comming and commercials for the best gift, the best toy or the best credit card for the holidays are all over the place. But how do you feel when this ads are targetting your 10 years old child, or even your toddler or baby?

Let’s learn how to keep our comming holidays centered on what matters most to us and to keep our kids from being targeted by publicity.

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood has published an online Guide to Commercial- Free Holidays that I so recommend to download. It’s free!

These are some of the topics covered:

- Carving Out Time and Space for Commercial-Free Family Traditions, by Susan Linn, EdD.- Director and cofounder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood at Judge Baker Children’s Center.

- Putting Others’ Needs Above Our Wants. By Enola Aird, JD. - An activist mother, director of The Motherhood Project, and author of Watch Out for Children: A Mothers’ Statement to Advertisers

- Buy Green, Buy Fair, Buy Local, Buy Used, and Buy Less. By Allen Kanner, PhD - Clinical psychologist and founding member of CCFC. He’s a father, a columnist for Tikkun Magazine, and coeditor of Psychology and Consumer Culture, and of Ecopsychology.

- TV-Free Holidays. By Karen Lewis - Mother, activist, and Project Associate for the Tobacco Prevention Project, National School Boards Association

- Gifts That Show You Care. By Nancy Carlsson- Paige, EdD. - Professor of Education at Lesley University. Mother and a grandmother. Author of Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence- Filled World

- Christmas Coupons at the Kassers. By Tim Kasser, PhD - Associate Professor of Psychology at Knox College. Father and author of The High Price of Materialism

- Giving Gifts That Encourage Creative Play. By Diane Levin, PhD - Professor of Education at Wheelock College and co-founder of CCFC. Mother, co-author of So Sexy So Soon and co-founder of TRUCE

- Give the Gift of Time. By Joe Kelly-The Dad Man- Father, speaker, writer, blogger, activist and consultant. He is the author of Dads and
Daughters: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter When She’s Growing Up So Fast

- The Choices We Make with Our Money Can Change the World. By Nathan Dungan - Founder of Share Save Spend and author of Personal Finance: A Lifetime of Responsibility, a textbook for high
school students

So go ahead and donwload by clicking on the picture below

Guide To Commercial Free Holidays

I do think that moms need and deserve our 8 hours of sleep. I don’t want to go on explanations and excuses about why we moms deserve such a privilege because I think everyone should have good rest from work and daily activities, and we moms are a group with higher needs of rest.

Do you think a good sleep is something you deserve as a mom? Are you getting your daily and well deserved 8 hours of sleep?
What do you do about that?
Me?…off to sleep…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz