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iPood: Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Child As A Billboard

My recent piece on the GoodMenProject.com has been getting some nice traction on fashion blogs and parenting blogs - strange bedfellows!. Here’s the intro:

Kid’s clothing shouldn’t make a statement, David Zweig writes, especially if it’s the parent who’re making it.

I recently learned of a company in Brooklyn, where I live and am raising a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter and an eight-month-old son, that sells shirts and “onesies” with an image of either an iPhone or Blackberry with “Put It Down” written on its face. As a part-time stay-at-home-dad who has spent many an afternoon at the playground cringing at the multitude of parents and caregivers glued to their smart phones, while at best paying half-attention to their playing toddlers, I appreciate the sentiment of the shirt. And yet something about it rubs me the wrong way, and I’m not talking about the abrasion of a cotton-poly blend.

Continued at GoodMenProject