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...billion in family spending that children under 13 are said to influence, along with $40 billion in pocket money that they spend on purchases from candy to clothes, an amount projected to hit nearly $52 billion in 2008, according to the market research firm Mintel. As many a besieged parent can attest, children's marketing seems to be raining down everywhere, from the Internet to video games to coloring books. And with kids increasingly splitting their time among all manner of media, not to mention extracurricular activities, "marketers are targeting children younger and younger in every way they can," says...
...practice isn't illegal, and Dohring says Neopets complies with the Children's Online Privacy Act, which bars companies from collecting personal information from Internet users under 13. Still, by embedding brand characters into games and activities, the ad "just goes unnoticed by the child, much less the parent," says McNeal, a critic of such practices. Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa plans to introduce a bill this week that would reinstate the Federal Trade Commission's ability to issue rules on unfair advertising to children (the ad industry now abides by voluntary guidelines...
...retirement community comes freighted with emotion. Sorting through a lifetime of possessions, reminiscing, feeling sad and saying goodbye to a house is a necessary part of the grieving process, says Barbara Kane, a licensed clinical social worker in Bethesda, Md., and author of Coping With Your Difficult Older Parent. "Moving is about the loss of our role as a householder, the one thing we still have control over in the last stages of life," she notes. "That's why it's so tough...
...debut week, while Italy's state-controlled utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power-grid owner Terna. And even after a bungled lead-up, investors piled in for a 33% share of Postbank, Germany's largest retail bank, generating €1.55 billion for parent Deutsche Post. Will investors tire? "The cash is there," insists Walter Kemmsies, head of European equity strategy at JPMorgan. "The market for IPOs is open." Next up: France Télécom hopes to raise €1.8 billion in July from the sale of a 30% stake in its Pages Jaunes directories business...
...children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who had been referred to the Cleveland Clinic because of chronic headaches, 22% were using pain relievers like Advil, Aleve and Tylenol as often as 15 to 20 times a week, and 1 in 7 was taking the medication without telling a parent. Experts caution that overuse of such drugs can lead to "rebound" headaches as well as kidney problems and gastrointestinal bleeding. They suggest that kids take no more than two doses a week...