Corporate exploitation, consumerism – Kids First Parent Association of Canada

Sign petition against Meta harming kids

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 7, 2025in Corporate exploitation, consumerism

Meta is allowing users under the age of 18 to interact with AI companion bots in highly sexualized and developmentally inappropriate "conversations." It's also letting adults take part in simulated sexual activities with AI that imitates a child or teen.…

Should We Trust Google Apps?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2019May 22, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC

January 2019 - GOOGLE APPS FOR KIDS are accused of: Illegal data collection.Manipulating children into in-app purchases.Ads for gambling and alcohol.Modeling harmful behavior like cleaning your eyes with sharp objects Sign the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood petitionTell Google: Adopt…

Research on 'Educational' Electronic Toys (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 15, 2016May 18, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc.

Jan 2016: Research on infant learning shows 'educational' electronic toys don't help

Commercial-Free Childhood News

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 20, 2015May 18, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc.

McD's, Disney, Hasbro lost vs Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: June 2015 Boston Globe article

Join The Campaign to Stop Mattel Doll That Records Your Conversation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 1, 2015May 16, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc.

March 2015: Barbie Big Brother: Join the campaign to stop Mattel doll that records your conversations

Sign petition: AT&T marketing BabyFirstTV with not one but 2 screens (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 20, 2014May 16, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc.

AT&T marketing BabyFirstTV with not one but 2 screens (broken link)

SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 28, 2013May 15, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE: Quebec daycare economists promote the Quebec daycare system because it increases labour supply and thus lowers wages which increases business profits. They also endorse neo-liberal/neo-conservative "trickle down theory" asserting that "eventually" this…

World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 25, 2011June 1, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator (broken link). Use it to “prove” the more you spend, the more you save: $1 produces $2-$17 in savings.

Sept 14 2011: Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 15, 2011May 30, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

September, 14 2011. The Telegraph - article (web): Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds

Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing: August 21, 2011

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 21, 2011May 30, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc.

August 21, 2011. The New York Times -article (web): "The Kids Are Not All Right" by UBC law professor, Joel Bakan, author of “The Corporation” and the new “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children”

From the Gordon Neufeld Institute:

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 27, 2011May 30, 2020in Attachment, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time

Neufeld on the Vancouver riots:2011. Gordon Neufeld. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Uncovering the Roots of Delinquency" Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing:2011. Deborah MacNamara. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Making Sense of the Senseless" Children, Teens and Technology (broken link)

Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 15, 2010June 16, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link). “Post-industrial capitalism has completely destroyed the conditions required for healthy childhood development.” Dec 2010 Democracy Now (US) interview of Dr Gabor Mate by Amy Goodman

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 20, 2010June 1, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations (broken link). It pushed “universal preschool” (broken link) in California. A new book, Soldiers of Reason: the…

“Our Phony Economy.” A Harper’s Magazine article

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 15, 2009May 26, 2021in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 2008. Jonathan Rowe. Harper’s Magazine - (magazine article): “Our Phony Economy"Simon Kuznets invented the GDP but opposed using it as if it measured all production: “The volume of services rendered by housewives and other members of the household toward…

Neo-conservative alliance with second-wave feminist daycare lobby admitted

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 1, 2009June 1, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

Neo-conservative alliance with second-wave feminist daycare lobby admitted. By Rianne Mahon, Carleton University sociologist and top Canadian daycare apologist: Rianne Mahon. Carleton University - research paper (PDF): “Transnationalising (Child) Care Policy: the OECD and the World Bank” Find it also…