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Rudolph: A Parable On Bullying, Peer Pressure & Soaring High

December 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Dec. 17, 2010 Media madness has hit some new toxic tipping points lately, from sexualized cues for tweens to slink around like a ho-ho-ho (great awareness-raising via this new PTC study) to teen pot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Annie Fox, anti-bullying, bullying, cerebral palsy, confidence, disabilities, frenemies, Glenda Watson Hyatt, I'll Do It Myself, Kidlutions, kids media influence, Lessons from Rudolph, Middle School Confidential, Miley bong hit, Miley Cyrus, Parents Television Council, Peer pressure, PTC, Race to Nowhere, Red Nosed reindeer, Rudolph, Salvia surge, Teen pot use rising, The Me Movement, Wendy Young

Dialing for Disorders: Let’s Move To Prevent Them By July 12!

June 29, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

June 29, 2010 As a kids' health advocate (inside and out) I’ve been covering the "HUGE" conversation pertaining to media’s responsibility and accountability in how the portrayal of being overweight in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Alcee Hastings, Athlete-Models, body dissatisfaction, bullying, CDC, champions for change, childhood obesity, children, confidence, congressional hearings, Counter-marketing, Dare to compare, dieting, Eating Disorders Coalition, eating-disorders, ED, EDC, Fat camp, fat is fiscal, fat kids, Female-Athletes, fitness, game plan, girls-self-worth, gymnastics, holistic health, Huge, Jess Weiner, junk-food, Kids health, Let's Move, Make it or break it, network for healthier california, Nikky Blonsky, nutrition, obesity, obesity prevention, P.E., physical education, physical fitness, physical fitness kids, portion distortion, Rebecca Scritchfield, social stigma, teens, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Verb, weight, weight loss, wellness, Yale's Rudd Center

A Tee Party Kicks Off ‘All Things Girl’ Week on Shaping Youth!

November 10, 2008 by Amy Jussel 25 Comments

Nov. 10, 2008 Sick of suggestive innuendos plastered on the chests of wee ones? Tired of ‘So Sexy So Soon’ messaging at ever-younger ages? Looking for media and marketing that builds up rather than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: A&F, Abercrombie tees, Age-of-Conversation, All Things Girl, APA, Ava's closet, B-girl, be heard, BGirl, CCFC, children, confidence, Cool Mom Picks, dads and daughters, David and Goliath, Dove, Early-Sexualization, emotional armor, feminist, Feministing, GFC, girl power tees, girls, Girls Can, girls damage, Girls for a Change, Girls-Rock, Happy Bunny, Hey Ugly, I am that girl, I deserve, innuendo, Jean Kilbourne, Jenifer Hoffman, Jordanns positive, Kids, objectification, one angry girl, Packaging-Girlhood, Parent Dish, Pink Think, Pop-Culture, President not Princess, preteens, princess, regaining self esteem, Respect Rx, Rose Fund, self-esteem girls, Smart Girls Rock, So Sexy So Soon, Social change agent, tee party, teens, think pink, tweens, U.G.L.Y., Uniquely Me, violence prevention

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