Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail off for ‘em!) for she just ran a very personal, very applaudable self-challenge on behalf of Diabetes Research and Education. She’s inspired so many of us who have … [Read more...]
Been a busy week with the digital advances transpiring at the Health 2.0 national conference in S.F., (full debrief on kids Gaming4Health panel upcoming) plus this weekend’s Adina’s Deck World Premiere of episode 2 and 3 to add to their kids’ original award-winning cyberbullying film (see sidebar debrief; post-interview/photos to come). Then tonight, … [Read more...]
Your turn to sound off if you’d like to join me (and 173 other orgs and commenters at last count) to reinforce the notion that embedded advertising (product placement) does not belong in young children’s programming. Shaping Youth was one of the initial 23 orgs onboard this coalition addressing the FCC, which I've written about exhaustively many a … [Read more...]
Calling all kids, moms-to-be and women like me who eat fish a lot: Since we’re evidently more at risk than others from harm due to mercury ingestion and fish consumption, there’s now a cool little cellphone calculator to check before you chomp. GotMercury.mobi is an “on the go” extension of the GotMercury.org web site which I wrote about in this … [Read more...]
November 13, 2008: Be there for the Kids Online: Balancing Fun and Safety Unconference! A few years back when I heard the geek/chic term “UnConference” I immediately thought it must be a “virtual” happening instead of a fly-in to reduce one’s carbon footprint. (shows you how I roll) Then I shrugged, “maybe it’s an … [Read more...]
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