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Mindless Eating Goes Mobile: HealthGamers Unite!

September 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Feb. 18, 2015 Interesting pairing of mindful eating with the ongoing distracted driving problems which I've written about often regarding what works to drive behavior change...in this MD's new wellness post connecting the dots with both! Sept. 30, 2009 I’m gearing up for theHealth2.0 conference to see what cool gizmos, mobile apps and media uses entrepreneurs have come up with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Brian Wansink, challenge, champions for change, childhood obesity, children, Cornell University, dietary intake, Elf-Island, food marketing, Fresh Producers, games for health, gaming, good nutrition, gross out game, health, Health 2.0 conference 2009, Health eGames, healthGAMERS, healthy eating, JP Pollak, Kids, mindless eating, nutrition, Nutrition Goodquest, persuasion, Playnormous, portion distortion, RWJF, serious-games, Tamagotchi, virtual pets, Virtual-Worlds

Bridging Generational Divides Through Music & Media

September 28, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Sept. 28, 2009 This past weekend I hosted “team bonding” for the JV girls’ volleyball crew coming together from a wide array of schools, cultures, and socioeconomics to learn to trust, play and unite as one cohesive unit. At first my ears were sounding alarms as if I had a living lab of Rachel Simmons' 'girl talk' research in my house, so I tossed those ‘Table Topics’ handy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: art and music, bands, Bruce Sallan, concerts, CoParenting, festivals, global music, Kids, Live Nation, Music, musicians, Outside Lands, parenting, Peace Through Music, Rachel Simmons, road trips, rock and roll, rock concerts, single dads, songs, T-Mobile, Table Topics, team bonding, teens, Woodstock

Rachel Simmons Tonight at GunnHS, Palo Alto!

September 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Sept. 24, 2009 S.F. Bay Area readers, reminder Rachel Simmons is speaking TONIGHT for free at Palo Alto's Gunn High School (details here) about her new book The Curse of the Good Girl (living proof of same right here with yours truly, heh) I interviewed Rachel Simmons about what all has transpired in media and marketing since her decade of research on relational … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, be heard, bullying, Curse of the Good Girl, emotional intelligence, empowerment, girls, Girls for a Change, girls leadership, girls voices, girls-confidence, Gunn High School, ideals, Kids, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Odd Girl Out, overachievers, perfect, preteens, Queen bees, Rachel Simmons, relational aggression, RESPECT, Rosalind Wiseman, self-worth, Stepford wives, super girls, SuperGirl, youth, youth voices

Fun in the Forest Earns Dizzywood Online A NAPPA Gold Award!

September 23, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Sept. 23, 2009 Ah, the first day of fall... An apt time to think about leaves, forests, colorful worlds and transitions into autumn when kids spend more time indoors and parents start hand-wringing about media management, homework hazards and how to balance back to school commitments with screen time online. The National Parenting Publications Awards has bestowed their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: age 8-12, barking robot, citizenship, digital kids, Dizzywood, Dizzywood tree planting, Izzy-Neis, Kids, NAPPA Gold, National Parenting Publications Awards, online gaming, parenting, Scott Arpajian, SmartyCard, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, Virtual-worlds-kids-ethics, youth

Peace, One Day. September 21. Reach And Teach.

September 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Sept. 21, 2009: United Nations International Day of Peace. (Not that you could tell from the Google icon which is marking HGWells' bday, ahem.) Ways for kids to 'imagine all the people...?' Show them the wings of hope with peace doves soaring high, conveying that the power of youth is global. (My hero, JGI’s Roots & Shoots) Look how much fun the Sprouts of Hope kids … [Read more...]