Comments on: Consuming Kids - the documentary http://taoofchange.com/2009/06/25/consuming-kids-the-documentary/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1-alpha By: Roger Hartsell http://taoofchange.com/2009/06/25/consuming-kids-the-documentary/#comment-1927 Roger Hartsell Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:06:26 +0000 http://taoofchange.com/?p=644#comment-1927 In my relatives homes that have small children, the floors are covered with little plastic things from China. Every new movie spurts forth another wave of "I want! I want!" They are quickly broken, or replaced by more recent media characters, from wrestlers, to super-heroes, Mutant turtles are still "hot." Maybe a secondary issue is over-population, as noted above. In the US, we can have as many kids as we want, regardless of whether we can support, raise, educate them. I can only see a positive effect of recession as buying less, and loving more. Your children will be better off. Roger Hartsell In my relatives homes that have small children, the floors are covered with little plastic things from China. Every new movie spurts forth another wave of “I want! I want!” They are quickly broken, or replaced by more recent media characters, from wrestlers, to super-heroes, Mutant turtles are still “hot.”
Maybe a secondary issue is over-population, as noted above. In the US, we can have as many kids as we want, regardless of whether we can support, raise, educate them.
I can only see a positive effect of recession as buying less, and loving more. Your children will be better off.

Roger Hartsell

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