Child's Play Communications

Merry Christmas to all, with sincere wishes for a happy and healthy holiday, and a hopeful new year!

Happy Winter Solstice everyone! After today, there will be more light -- something we all need.

Moms expect to spend about $230 per child this holiday season. Here's what they'll be buying.

Moms Will Make Or Break Retailers’ Holiday: What She Will Be Shopping For The nation's 73.5 million mothers will be the holiday hero this year. Retailers need to help her through this shopping season with the things she will be looking for.

McKinsey report: 1 in 4 working women considering resigning or downshifting her career. Here's why.

Why Did Hundreds of Thousands of Women Drop Out of the Workforce? In some families buckling under the caregiving burden, the lower wage earner is leaving the work force. Usually that’s the wife.

Pod schooling? Here are some tips on making it a success.

How to Maintain Peace in Your School Pod ‘It’s important to approach this with the idea that there’s no ideal situation. If there were, we’d all be doing it.’

Could employers do more to help working parents?

Private Tutors, Pop-Up Schools or Nothing at All: How Employers Are Helping Parents Benefits depend on where people work, and the kind of job they have, a new survey finds, highlighting disparities that predate the pandemic.

Pandemic exacerbates work issues for moms, contributing to professional "motherhood gaps."

Pandemic Will ‘Take Our Women 10 Years Back’ in the Workplace Improvements in gender equality in the workplace may be another casualty of the coronavirus, as women find their place in the work force more at risk.

Yet another change in the media business: Journalists opting for Substack newsletters over established publications. Why? The evolving relationship between individual reporters and their audience.

Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox Casey Newton, who has covered tech for The Verge, joins a growing number of reporters who have started subscription newsletters at Substack, a three-year-old platform.

Interesting but not surprising: How kids spent their money during lockdown.

Kid spending shifts to online games Pocket money is going virtual, with kids ditching candy and books in favor of digital gaming platforms like Roblox and Fortnite.

Consumers plan loyalty to new brands tried during quarantine.

Consumers form loyalties to new brands they bought in quarantine, survey finds Some of the new shopping habits formed during the pandemic could endure, providing opportunities for marketers, Bazaarvoice found.

Ever so clever: Lego and Levis

LEGO and Levi’s build new collection that turns fashion line into “a blank canvas for LEGO play” - Licensing.biz The worlds of fashion and toys have discovered an innovative way to combine through a new partnershi

Is distance learning working for your child?

How to Tell if Distance Learning Is Working for Your Kid Measuring skills, not test scores, is key.