It’s dripping in irony that Newsweek’s cover story makes a headline morality play “What are Celebs Teaching Kids” while featuring the celubutante divas of the pop-tart scene front and center to cash in and sell a few extra magazines.I’ve already written about this particular tipping point of toxicity.Kirsten Scharnberg's Chicago Tribune article summed the trickle down effect, … [Read more...]
People were atwitter about the ‘addictive’ nature of the new social networking site Twitter when I attended the Community Next event at Stanford Saturday. This is Odeo's global social-media query to the classic teen phone opener, “what are you doing right now?” Sarah’s eating a burrito, Johnny’s picking his hangnails…sheesh, who … [Read more...]
Here’s a reality show pitch for ya… What if we feature the BBC television ‘Eat like an Ape’ experiment that caged humans in the zoo to lower blood pressure and cholesterol by eating fruit, vegetables, nuts and honey for 12-days on American mainstream TV? Now, what if we unlocked the opportunity for high-risk kids to voluntarily become 'test … [Read more...]
Lately I’ve been grappling with how to uncork a dialogue about “kids” vs. “youth culture.” We need to fine tune our mindsets when protectionism and policy drivers mistakenly channel all of ‘youth’ onto one frequency, so I figured I’d better attempt to ‘orbit the giant hairball’ and cough up some global … [Read more...]
Here we go again. Shades of those old candy cigarettes from yesteryear that went by the wayside. Kiddie Valentine treats plopped in a can of brewski? Beer cans of ‘love buzz’ in the candy-n-kids section of WalMart have popped open some controversy. No alarmist implications of direct ties to teen substance abuse stats here, just a great big WHY? Why is Cocaine in a … [Read more...]
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