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Media Unplugged: Clamping The IV Digital Drip (Pt1)

August 28, 2010 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Dec. 14, 2015 Update Don't miss this Wall Street Journal article, "Is your Doctor Getting Too Much Screen Time? which is a huge patient/service complaint and a disconnect especially among seniors … [Read more...]

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Josh in a Box: Helpful Advice For Parents of Teens!

October 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 21, 2009 What if I told you a few of my favorite advice slingers and youth analysis pros aren’t even parents at all? There’s Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse speaking from the GenX pulpit (ok, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advice, advice slingers, Anastasia-Goodstein, as seen on TV, attention, be yourself, being labeled, branding, bullying, challenging, childhood, choices, cliques, core values, Dear Abby for teens, Digital, empowerment, foster parents, freak, free to be me, Gen X, Gen Y, generation, Global Fund for Women, healthy, Hey Josh for Grownups, Hey Josh!, Hey Josh.com, identity, In Her Shoes, influences, inspiring, Inspiring-Teens, Josh in a box, Josh Shipp, Jump Shipp, Kids, know who you are, labeling, marketing, Media-as-super-peer, Millenials, motivational speakers, MTV, negative labels, Odd Girl Out, outsider, parenting, Peer pressure, Preteen-Identity, pundits, punk, Radical Parenting, reality, relational aggression, relationships, Respect Rx, School Loop, teacup parenting, teens, teens and parents, troubled teens, vanessa van petten, verbal abuse, who am I?, YPulse

Overachievers: Interview with Liz Funk Author of SuperGirls Speak Out!

March 4, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Mar. 4, 2009 I'm berating myself for not having this interview 'go live' on Eastern time, where teen author Liz Funk (now 20) resides...I'm doing the best I can... ...ESPECIALLY since I got behind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, 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: attention, bodysnarking, coping skills, disease to please, eating-disorders, emotional disorders, Gen Y, girls, girls inc., identity, Kids, Liz Funk, overachieving, perfectionists, preteen-health, self-esteem, self-worth, societal pressure, stress, Stressed Out Students, SuperGirl, supergirls, SuperGirls Speak Out, Supergirlz, supermoms, teen author, teen depression, teen health, virtual stage, youth

GASP: Thrillseeking Kids Haven’t Got The Faintest Clue

January 5, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

I had really, REALLY hoped to kick off the New Year with all my Positive Picks in media, like Reddit's Feed a Need.org, the new virtual world Elf Island.com, and even commercial eco-efforts like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Add new tag, adolescents, asphyxiation, attention, belts, blackout, brain drain, braincells, breath control, breath play, CDC, choking game, D.A.R.E., dangers, EMO, fainting game, Games Adolescents Shouldn't Play, GASP, how tos, internet-safety, kids brains, Ludacris, ludicrous, media moderation, middle school, noose, out cold, oxygen deprivation, passout, preteens, punch, risky behavior, safety warning, scarf game, space monkey, teen suicides, teens, ties, truth or dare, Weary parents, windpipe, youth risk

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