1KHO 79: Children Who Play Creatively Are Not Lucrative to the Toy Industry | Dr. Susan Linn, Who's Raising the Kids? | The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast - S3 E52

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We need to end the corporate takeover of childhood. Dr. Susan Linn always has practical and pertinent information for today's parents. She's an expert on the commercialization of childhood, the values that companies are spreading that cause division in families, and the types of toys that undermine creativity. In a gentle, supportive, and empathetic was Susan helps us find ways to protect our children's intrinsic motivation to play and create. She gives insight into what is going on behind the scenes that is contributing to nagging and guilt. I have gotten so much out of all three of Dr. Susan Linn's books, all published by The New Press. Her newest, Who's Raising the Kids? Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children is phenomenal. I was so thankful to get the chance to talk about the things she is continuing to learn as it pertains to the intentions of companies who are taking advantage of our need at times for convenience. Susan was on our podcast earlier this season (season 3, episode 26) talking about the loss of middle childhood (ages 6 - 12). Both episodes are fantastic. They'll leave you with lots to ponder and lots to discuss with friends and family! Check out Susan's brand new book here: https://amzn.to/3BZ529a Learn more about Dr. Susan Linn here: https://www.consumingkids.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, just absolutely delighted to be here again with Susan Lynn. Welcome.
0:08.0	Jenny, I'm so happy to be here with you. It was so much fun the last time.
0:13.6	It was.
0:14.4	It was fantastic.
0:15.7	I learned so much.
0:16.9	I love your books.
0:18.2	Susan is a psychologist award-winning ventriloquist, which is so unique and interesting in a world-renowned expert on creative play in the impact of media and commercial marketing on children.
0:28.0	She was the founding director of Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, which is now called Fair Play and is currently research
0:33.7	associate at Boston Children's Hospital and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the
0:38.9	author of two other fantastic books consuming kids and the case for make believe which are both
0:44.0	published by the new press and you have a brand new one coming out I got to read
0:49.0	an advanced copy of it which was fantastic who's raising the kids big tech big business and the lives of
0:55.0	children. Congrats. Thank you. A huge Congrats is in order. This is a big
1:00.2	labor of love and it's a fantastic book. I have to tell you this story. I took it with
1:05.0	me on a trip and to read it and it's just a grade. It's a page-turner. It's so
1:09.5	informative and interesting and I was getting some pictures of it.
1:13.0	You know, I thought I'll share on social media.
1:15.0	And it's got just this cover that grabs you.
1:17.0	I had this paperback copy at the time.
1:19.0	So I was setting it up in these little spots of trees and I was taking some pictures and the set of
1:23.6	grandparents walked by and it catches your attention. Everyone's thinking about
1:28.7	this question they go who's raising the kids? They said, we think it's the grandparents.
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