Raising Creative, Critical Thinkers in a Commercialized World with Susan Linn

Janet's guest is psychologist, writer, researcher, and Harvard lecturer Susan Linn. For decades, Susan has been a passionate advocate for our children and a steadfast fighter against the infiltration of Big Business and Big Tech into kids' lives (and parents' pocketbooks). In an eye-opening discussion, Susan describes how digital culture is designed to indoctrinate children into consumerism and brand loyalty, and how it's geared to create dependencies on games and devices for stimulation and soothing. She explains how games and devices teach values that are often diametrically opposed to our own, how they can affect learning by shrinking our children’s world and even interfere with parent-child relationships. Ultimately, Susan and Janet focus on the positive actions we can take to lessen the impact of manipulative marketers while realistically acknowledging the role of digitized culture in all of our lives.
More to learn in this episode:
How to choose the most beneficial toys and programs for our kids
How advertisers capture children's attention and encourage them to nag us for more, more, more
Why combatting commercialized culture isn't only a family issue, but a societal one
What Alexa offers to "bored" children
Computer games are less "active" for kids than we might believe
For more on Susan, her work, and her books, visit: www.www.consumingk...
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I regret a lot the moments of extrema fatigue i had during the pregnancy for my toddler in the mornings to hand her the family videos to look at . I did as much as i couls to prepare the environment in a Montessori mainly or waldorf way but that was extremely difficult sharing the engorged with my ADHD horder mum and having no energy for the day. I am gratefull it was together we watched documentaries and and classic bLlamory or other shows i grew up with come outside is great asan option learning a lot so slow paced i liked that the most but still am so happy that as soon as i gave birth it was back to normal.
I also noticed i am addicted to the phone again now since i joined facebook groups and WhatsApp groups for home education parents.
I literally don't think about it that one they're sleeping i waste half an hour on my phone until i get onto self care.