Advertisers bombard kids where they live

Do you know how many advertising images our children are bombarded with every day?

Drum roll please, and I'm not making this up -- as many as 6,000 to 7,000. That's according to findings from the folks at the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding in Elizabethtown, Pa.

That number is a little tough to imagine, but it gets easier when one thinks of the fleeting images our kids get on everything from billboards to backpacks to lunch boxes and milk cartons, store windows and stores. And that's all before they get to magazines, television, Internet and radio.

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