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Influencers, Accountability and the Global Cost to Youth

March 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

April 7, 2013 Update: This topic will be the opening plenary at the newly rebranded Yth.org public health conference today in S.F., livestreamed here: YthLive.org at 4pm Pacific time/1pm ET.I can't wait to hear this panel, as I've got questions out the wazoo in terms of opportunities for education, producers' ratings baiting w/scripts, social norming and accountability, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, Africa, AIDS, Anti-Condom, APA, Catholics, CDC, Condoms, dissolvable tobacco products, do no harm, Gurl.com, HIV, Holy See, influencers, Isis, marketing mindshare, media glamorization of sex, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, preventive practices, safe sex, Secret Life of the American Teenager, sex sells, Sex-Tech, Sub-Sahara, SxTech, Tapestries-of-Hope, teen pregnancy, teen sex survey, teen sexual behavior, The Pontiff, TOH, Tyra Banks, Vatican, YRBS

First Day of Spring! See It Through A Child’s Eyes

March 20, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Mar. 20, 2009 It’s overcast here on the water today, which shifts my annual spring ritual into a different lens of wonder. Whenever things get too wacky in my world (and lately, that’s been hourly) I instinctively start removing clutter of the mind, media, and heart to time travel back into childhood, and just stop ALL stimulation. These days I worry that kids never fully … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Betsy Burroughs, Brian-Reich, children, Eco-Childs-Play, first day of spring, focus, Future Catalyst, Get 'Em Outside, Kids, nature, NCLI, Spring, spring kids books, spring rituals, through a child's eyes, unplugged

Playing For Change: A Music Movement That Stirs the Soul

March 18, 2009 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Mar. 18, 2009 ”Music is the poetry of the air.”---Jean Paul Richter Like a smile, music knows few boundaries in its outreach. It has the profound ability to connect cultures, remove barriers, and capture emotion even when words aren’t understood, so it makes sense that youth leverage music for self-expression in so many multimedia forms, from iTunes to profile pages, band … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Africa, aid, AIDS, Amy-Jussel, Bob Marley, cause marketing, Condoms, disasters, Don't Worry, global music, GWLN, Hear Music, HIV, Jonathan Walls, Live 8, Live Aid, Mark Johnson, Mehlo Arts, Mobile Fundraising, Movement, Music revolution, Ntonga Music, One world, Peace Corps, Peace Through Music, PFC, PFCF, Playing for Change, Playing for Change Foundation, Pope, Red Wire, redwire, relief, SMS, Songs Around the World, Stand By Me, Sweet Relief, Texting for Charity, Tibetan refugees, Women Leaders for the world, world beat

Kids Green Science Shenanigans for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Update March 15, 2016 Will you be celebrating the lucky lore and leprechauns/limericks of March 17 holiday hoopla? Hadn't seen this easy rainbow slime for STEM & STEAM sensory play and tactile discovery with wee ones; so I'm adding it to this helpful 2016 activities roundup from Playdough to Plato on the St. Patrick's Day project front for early learners 3-8. Also check … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ECE, Freakonomics, green, green activities, Green Eggs and Ham, green food, Green media, Green science, green snow, Irish, Kids, leprechaun, pot of gold, Project Green Prom, Project Wild Thing, rainbow, rainbow slime, Saint Patricks Day, sensory activities kids, St Patricks Day, STEAM, STEM green science, Steve Spangler Science, teens, turn people green, Turning Green, Virtual-Worlds, youth

Like Taking Candy From A Baby: Camel Trots Out Nicotine Tricks (Again)

March 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 32 Comments

Mar. 16, 2009 Gotta put my cranky pants on again…. R.J.Reynolds is lighting the fuses of frustrated parents by offering Camel nicotine laced ‘orbs, strips, and sticks’ coming at kids in the mints and gum portion of the candy aisle right near the checkout. That’s right, dissolvable nicotine. Cigs are off limits, Joe Camel is kaput, so now we’ve got fresh breath-freshener … [Read more...]