I was raised in a ‘question authority’ family of intellectual gamesmanship. When my Dad would cite stats as facts in know-it-all style, my Mom would trot out How to Lie with Statistics and take him down a notch, grounding him in reality. Such is the case with statistical hullabaloo about today’s wired kids being such hot shots at multitasking... Mind you, … [Read more...]
Recently, I brought my tween daughter to meet Anastasia Goodstein, (at left) publisher of youth blog YPulse and author of the Totally Wired book and blog. Since we’re both Bay-area based, I thought I’d seize the local opportunity to hear what she had to say at one of her book talks on the press circuit. I ended up bumping into some parents I already knew, … [Read more...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Our distrust is very expensive.” Author Anastasia Goodstein echoes this sage premise throughout her excellent book, Totally Wired, What Tweens and Teens are REALLY Doing Online. We pay a high price for parent-child internet estrangement, whether resulting from our own technology intimidation, media scare tactics creating a … [Read more...]
We interrupt this CBS program series recap to bring you word from the parenting trenches, sharing a magic media moment! Promise I’ll get back to last night’s CBS advergaming segment (video clip here) but frankly, Shaping Youth’s readership is well-versed in the pitfalls of same...Especially since I’ve already covered advergaming here, and here, and … [Read more...]
With Mother’s Day pummeling kids with media and marketing “must-haves” most moms I know would prefer “the gift of time.” Can social media networks wave the fairy wand and make mom’s dream come true? Maybe so! Check out Sittercity. It’s a database driven hub for pre-qualified profiles of babysitters near YOU. Zap in your zipcode … [Read more...]
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