Buy, Buy Baby - How Big Business Captures the Ultimate Consumer - Your Baby or Toddler

An investigative journalist examines how marketers are exploiting infants and toddlers (0-3s) and the broad impact on our society of this aggressive selling. Our kids are becoming consumers at alarmingly young ages and suffering all the ills that rampant materialism used to visit only on adults - from anxiety to hypercompetitiveness to depression. Thomas reveals growing evidence that some of these products may actually impair early development and could harm our kids socially and cognitively for life. She shows how we can help our kids live at their natural pace, not by TV schedules or advertisement soundbites...