Podcast #32: Josh Golin on Marketing to Kids

Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.

By Mo Lotman | June 19, 2019 | Advertising, Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Family, Law, Media, Podcasts, Privacy, Psychology | Activism, Advertising, Alexa, Amazon, Baby Einstein, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Children, Citizenship, Commercials, Community, Consumerism, Critical Thinking, Digital Nanny, Disney, Echo Dot for Kids, Ed-Tech, Edward Markey, Environment, Fast Food, Hello Barbie, Internet, iPads, Josh Hawley, Marketing, Mattel, Movement Building, Obesity, Pornography, Schools, Scree-Free Week, Screen Time Action Network, Screens, Smartphones, surveillance, Technology in Schools, TV, Violence, YouTube

Podcast #31: Roald Hazelhoff’s Environmental Citizenship

Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.

By Mo Lotman | May 2, 2019 | Community, Culture, Environment, Family, Podcasts | Alabama, Art, Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, Children, EcoScape, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Garbage, Garden, Mosaic, Museums, Native Plants, Partnerships, Pollution, Preservation, Recycling, Reuse, Sculpture, Southern Environmental Center, Stewardship, Stone, Students, Waste, Water

The Death of Natural Childbirth

The second part of a series on childbirth examines how natural birth has been systematically disabled, at the cost of bonding and health.

By David A. J. Reynolds | June 27, 2018 | Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Health, Medicine, Reproduction, Society, Well-Being | Ágnes Geréb, Amniotomy, Anesthesia, Asphyxia, Babies, Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Birthing, Caesarean Section, Childbirth, Children, Consumerism, Control, Demerol, Efficiency, Els Hendrix, Epidural, Finland, Forceps, Home-Birth, Hungary, Ignác Semmelweis, Infant Mortality, Institutionalized Birth, Interventionism, Irvine Loudon, Jacqueline Wolf, Jennifer Block, John Whitridge Williams, Kieran O’Driscoll, L.H. Lumey, Machines, Medicine, Michel Odent, Midwifery, Nature, Obstetrics, Oxytocin, Perfectionism, Pitocin, Pregnancy, Puerperal Fever, Rationalism, Sarah Buckley, Standardization, Taylorism, Technocentrism, The Netherlands, Twilight Sleep, UK, US, Western Medicine

The Attack on Natural Childbirth

Over the past century or so, the most natural and integral part of the human life-cycle—birth—has been systematically medicalized and institutionalized, at the expense of the body’s own wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | June 13, 2018 | Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Health, Medicine, Reproduction, Society, Well-Being | Ágnes Geréb, Babies, Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Birthing, Childbirth, Children, Control, Efficiency, Hilary Marland, Home-Birth, Ina May Gaskin, Institutionalized Birth, Jennifer Block, L.H. Lumey, Machines, Maternity Care, Medicine, Midwifery, Nadine Edwards, Nature, Obstetrics, Oxytocin, Pathology, Physiology, Pregnancy, Rationalism, Repression, Standardization, Surgery, The Netherlands, Western Medicine

A Year (Mostly) Unplugged

A year with spotty cell coverage turns out to be a blessing.

By Tom Jacobs | June 6, 2018 | Family, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | 4G, Boredom, Bullshit Jobs, Cell Coverage, Cell Phones, Children, David Graeber, Internet, Networks, Pamplin, Quiet, Smartphones, Unplugged, US Cellular, Verizon, Virginia

VR’s Neurological Effects Hard to Grasp

As virtual reality makes a comeback, its potentially troubling neurological effects, particularly over the long term, remain poorly understood.

By Emily Ludolf | November 22, 2017 | Cognition, Health, Media, Neurology | 3D, Air Force, Brain, Children, Dizziness, Eye Strain, Eyesight, Headaches, Health, Leeds University, Motion, Motion Sickness, Nausea, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Senses, Simulator Sickness, Spatial Learning, US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Video Games, Virtual Reality, VR

Developing Brains Need Socializing, Not Screens

Parents often use digital devices as babysitters, but these devices interrupt the social and physical interactivity needed for healthy brain development.

By Meghan Carron | July 12, 2017 | Cognition, Family, Health, Media, Psychology, Relationships, Society | American Academy of Pediatrics, Attention, Bonding, Brain Development, Children, Communication, Digital Media, Distraction, DNA, Executive Functioning, Fitness, Focus, Interactivity, Nurturing, Parents, Physical Activity, Play, Serve and Return, smart phones, Social Interaction, The Center on the Developing Child

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