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.
Obama references info overload
You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter. And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — (laughter) — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
Thus spoke the Prez during his commencement speech at Hampton University on Sunday 5/9. Wow. This type of commentary is pretty outside the norm for a politician, let alone a president.
