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The Commercialization Of Kids

The Commercialization Of Kids

Big tech trains kids to become consumers from … well, birth.

Child-targeted marketing is cringe-worthy at best and unethical at worst. It also undermines our children’s healthy development because it robs them of opportunities to play, imagine, and learn freely without manipulation.

Today I speak with Dr. Susan Linn about the ways in which technology exploits children (and what we can do about it at home).

Here’s a preview:

[3:30] Brand loyalty? How media corporations exploit our children for profit

[6:30] Societal implications associated with perpetually up-selling to kids

[11:30] The ways in which big tech manipulates children into bonding with their devices

[17:00] A good, hard look: Addressing our collective preoccupation with technology

[28:00] Thoughts on breaking an older child’s screen addiction

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Big tech trains kids to become consumers from ... well, birth. Child-targeted marketing undermines our children's healthy development because it robs them of opportunities to play, imagine, and learn freely without manipulation. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: 5 ways technology exploits children (and what we can do about it at home).

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Cultural messaging and suggests you should be happy all the time. But your "happy chemicals"—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin—evolved to motivate survival behavior, not make you happy.

In fact, unhappiness is your brain's default state.

On today's show Dr. Loretta Breuning argues that you can manage your happy chemicals when you know how they work in the state of nature, and she's here to show us how.

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[9:00] Serotonin is about social dominance. Enter comparison and competition

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[15:30] Endorphin is the brain's natural opioid. But you can habituate to it!

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