Since my post Scenario's With Children - How a Class of First-Graders See Life in 2026 has received some interest, I thought I would share another piece from another scenario session with a girl scout group. This group too consisted of very young elementary school age...
[caption id="attachment_2760" align="alignright" width="288"] Image source: Victor Habbick @ Freedigitalphotos.net.[/caption] In I’m Gonna Pop Some Tags I referred to an article indicating that toy innovation has been sluggish since the recession. But even if the average consumer might not feel the effects of an improving economy...
During most of the years that I have covered parenting trends there has been a growing tendency to overprotect children. This phenomenon has in the United States and some other countries been dubbed helicopter parenting. Other places the tendency to micromanage ones progeny is known...
Here's something that's going to make you feel instantly old: The oldest X’ers are turning 50 in 2014. In a time when all the buzz is about aging Boomers and flailing Generation Y and Millennials (the youngest adult generation is so mythologized that it has...
It's that time of year again when we sum up the progress of the old year and speculate the future events of the next. As a futurist who spend my time gazing at the youngest generation I can't let this opportunity pass me by. So...
In this post we will have a look at how the new economic realities since the recession are shifting consumer habits, and especially among the youngest generation. This is part 3 in a three-piece series on how the post-recessionary economy is affecting the youngest generation. In...
