Getting corporations out of our families
"With those children [Winston] thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror," George Orwell wrote in 1984 of the challenges of parenting under a totalitarian regime. "Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they … [Read more...]
"We found the way a child nags isn't always the same," says Lucy Hughes, then-director of strategy and insight for Initiative Media. "There's one of two ways that they nag— either with persistence or with importance." Persistent nagging is "really whiny," according to Hughes. "'Mommy, I really, really want the Barbie Dream House, wah, wah, wah, wah...'" Important nagging by contrast is more … [Read more...]