’Tis the season for tantrums in the toy aisles and impossibly long Santa lists. But for parents wishing to shield their children from the clutches of consumerism, shutting off the TV commercials and ...

The fascination of seeing what toy's in the box Source: Shutterstock Unboxing videos are exactly what they sound like: Watching someone open a box while they tell you all about it on YouTube. They are ...

Seven-year-old Noemi and 8-year-old Solana sat in front of a computer screen in their dining room in Roxbury — transfixed by a pair of hands opening toy eggs in a YouTube video. The video didn't show ...

It’s no secret that children today are navigating a more complicated media ecosystem than prior generations. One notable change is evident in the types of commercial messages that children encounter ...