financial literacy

SureFire Girls: Life Literacy For Teens in a Power-Packed Conference

October 8, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Oct. 8, 2013 As the parent of a teen graduating high school, spring was like a surreal montage of college tours, anticipation, excitement and questions swirling in my brain.Did I give her enough savvy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: A Caspian Production, adolescent body image, All Things Girl, Amy Jussel Partner, Amy-Jussel, APA task force sexualization girls, Brave Girls, Brave Girls Want, child development, Critical-thinking-skills, educating girls, financial literacy, gender equity, girl-empowerment, girlpower, girls leadership, girls-confidence, girls-self-worth, Heather Mason, Inspiring-Teens, International Day of the Girl, life skills, media-literacy, mother daughter, parenting, redefining girly, Santa Monica, Sure Fire Girls, Sure Fire Girls conference, SureFire Girls, teens life skills

Prom Spending Surges? Media Panics, Hype & Critical Thinking

May 19, 2012 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 15, 2015 Update! Great then/now retrospective in the New York Times that spans proms over 60 years, all the way up to current "promposal" shenanigans, spending surges and social media selfies! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: appearance cues, bodysnarking, Celebrity worship, deconstructing infographics, DoSomething Prom For All, financial education, financial literacy, frugal finds, Gen Y, Gender, gender and media portrayals, generation debt, GfK Roper OmniTel, hottie factor, Junior Prom, keeping up with the joneses, low income spending, lower the income higher the spending, media mindfulness, media-literacy, national average prom spending, oneupsmanship, Parenting-Teens, plastic, Pretty in Pink Prom, princess project, Prom Costs 2012, prom spending surges, Promzilla, Researching-the-researchers, Sexualization, Slash prom costs, tail wagging the dog, teens prom, Visa, Visa survey on prom costs, who wore it best

How Can We Use Media To Gift Without Buying?

December 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Update: Dec. 12, 2018 Open Call...for any and all ideas to give the gift of TIME to teachers, elders, family and friends and reduce consumption/increase heartfelt meaning in the process! Hit me up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: anti-consumption, battling cancer, Buy Buy Baby, buy nothing, catalog shopping, CCFC, Coming of Age In a Crap Economy, commercial free, Consuming kids, consumption, critical thinking, don't buy it, eco literacy, family tradition, financial literacy, freebies, freecycling, gift of time, gift without buying, gifts, giving vs receiving, Good Night iPad, holiday debt, holiday rituals, kids gifts, Me to We, mindfulness, neuroscience of shopping, not buying it, regifting, shop til you drop, student debt, Think Geek, thought that counts, thrifty gifting, virtual gifting

Gen Y Book Launch: Coming of Age in a Crap Economy

July 12, 2011 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

July 12, 2011 Lately my generational layers have been interwoven like an Etsy blankie... Between my sandwich generation eldercare/teen scene and my Gen X and Gen Y nephews making the best of jobs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 20 somethings, 20something, Amy-Jussel, Careerspotting, college angst, Coming of Age In a Crap Economy, Crap Economy, DefaultMovie.com, digital-natives, ebooks, Eternal Intern, financial literacy, Gen Y, generation meh, InReads.com, Job Market, jobless, life balance, living with parents, Liz Funk, media-literacy, millennials, Net Generation, overachievers, Qynko, resilience, Sharing economy, student debt, student loans, SuperGirls Speak Out, underemployed youth, unemployed youth, YPulse

Warren Buffett Cartoon: 3-5 Minute Financial Literacy Clips

July 27, 2009 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Update Oct 23, 2011: The Hub Premieres Secret Millionaires Club Special Sept 9, 2011: New launch: Cha-Ching Asia/Cartoon Network and April 23, 2010: new site Cash Savvy Kids w/experts advising … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 3-5 min webisodes for kids, A Squared, allowances, Andy Heyward, bankruptcy, banks, Berkshire Hathaway, Budget Hero, budgets, candy, cartoons, CNBC, comic, Comic Con, credit, credit cards, crisis of credit, debt, default, DefaultMovie.com, DIC entertainment, dollars, economic, economic literacy, economy, education, family finance, finance, financial debt, financial education kids, financial literacy, fiscal fitness, habits, Ideablob, investment, investors, iThryv, ITVT, Jumpstart, Kids, kids webisodes, kidvid, Kiplinger's, Lend me some sugar, lenders, Liberty's Kids, Minyanland, money, poor, prepaid cards, prosperity, reach and teach, rich, savings, Secret Millionaire's Club, solvency, stock market, stocks, student debt, student loans, Virgance, Warren Buffett, wealth, webisodes, youth

Default: The Student Loan Documentary Needs Your Vote On Ideablob!

July 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

July 9, 2009 Update 7-13: 24 hrs. left for them to qualify this round, lend a hand if you can! "Default." Say what? It’s rare that I’d ‘advocate for default’ but in this case, it’s well-warranted, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth Tagged With: aurora meneghello, college education, colleges, collegiate, credit, crowdsourcing, default, DefaultMovie.com, direct lenders, doc, documentary, film, filmmakers, filmmaking, financial aid, financial literacy, fiscal fitness, Ideablob, institutions, Ivy League, money, private lending, public school, reform, serge balakian, servitude, SF Film Society, student debt, student loans, student slaves, student stress, teens in tech, universities, university

Budget Hero Game: Want To Be President of the USA?

February 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Sept. 18, 2012 Tomorrow Sept. 19, 2012, two students from the Maryland School of Public Policy join WilsonCenter.org on Capitol Hill to launch Budget Hero new "Election Edition" engaging a group of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: address to Congress, Budget Hero, credit crunch, debt, education, February 24 first budget speech, financial literacy, fiscal, Freakonomics, Game of Life, games, gaming, Kids, Minyanland, Obama Congressional address, President Obama CNN/Facebook, State of the Union, student debt, TopTenz

The Crisis of Credit: Visualized. Kid Vid Teaching Tool by MFA Student

February 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feb. 19, 2009 For every speechless educator groping for words when hands are raised with the million dollar questions…”how did we get here” and “what can we do about it?” this little 3:44 video clip … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, bailout, banking, commoncraft show, credit crisis, Crisis of Credit Visualized, debt, default, easy explanations, economy, education, financial education, financial fiasco, financial literacy, financial reform, Jonathan Jarvis, Kids, Students, subprime mortgage, teaching tools, teens, tweens, viral video, Visual Insight

Money Management for Kids: Chores, Allowance & Digital Nagging

December 23, 2008 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Part Two of our interview with PAYjr CEO David Jones includes one of the rarely used aspects of PAYjr's chore and allowance program (only 5% evidently) where parents can set up cell phone reminders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: allowances, binge shopping, chores, commercialism, consumption, credit cards, credit counseling, cyber nagging, dangers of debt, David Jones CEO Payjr, debt, economics, finance, financial education, financial literacy, financial reminders, generation debt, Health 2.0, holiday debt, iThryv, Jumpstart Financial Coalition, Kids, Minyanland, money habits, money lessons, money sense, My Reward board, NCEE, NSF, online allowance tools, online banking, online chore chart, pay jr, Payjr, payjunior, shop til you drop, shopping, SMS, student debt, Students, texting, virtual chore chart, weprosper

Shaping Youth Interviews PAYjr CEO on Kids’ Prepaid Plastic

December 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Seeing as how we’re smack dab in the “final 48 hour retail frenzy” of credit card-flinging shoppers at risk of losing every logical brain cell, my interview with PAYjr Founder/CEO … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: allowance, chores, Consumers Union, consumption, Credit Card Reform, credit cards, custom prepaid card, dangers of debt, David Jones, David Jones CEO Payjr, debt, debt binge, financial education, financial literacy, financial savvy, holiday spending, Kids, kids packing plastic, Minyanland, Pay junior, Payjr, PAYjr Visa Buxx card, plastic, prepaids, reloading fees, taming the gimmes, teen prepaid cards, teen spending, teens, Visa Buxx

A Humorous Approach to Student Debt: Credit Cartoons

November 7, 2008 by Amy Jussel 21 Comments

Two million kids voted in the Kids Pick the President mock elections and they nailed the outcome. (that's 4 out of 5 of the last Presidential elections, per Nickelodeon news) Now, Consumers Union is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: advertising deregulation, Allow Card, bad debt, banks, Buy Buy Baby, campus, capitol one, Cartoon Contest, college, commercialism, consumer credit counseling, consumer reports, Consumers Union, consumption, credit card debt, Credit Card Reform, credit cards, educating teens, financial literacy, financial meltdown, fiscal fitness, FTC, Kids Pick the President, Mock Elections, mortgage loan, MyPlash, Nickelodeon, overdraft, Pay junior, Payjr, prepaid cards for teens, prepaids, privacy now, RushCard, student loans, virtual mall, Visa Buxx, Youth Debt, Ypulse Mashup East

“My Gift Card’s Worthless? That’s So Unfair!” Cry Foul to the FTC

September 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

I don’t know about you, but with California schools on the skids, turning pockets inside out in a pathetic, penniless shrug, parents have been asked to contribute to fundraisers that also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 700 billion bailout, allowances, banking, bankrupt schools, California schools, children, consumer protection, consumer reports, Consumers Union, Credit Card Reform, economic crisis, finance, financial education kids, financial literacy, fiscal, FTC, Gift cards, iThryv, kids money, Minyanland, money management, online financial literacy, Petition FTC, retail bankruptcy, Savvy Wallet, teach children money management, teens, The Wallet, unfair and deceptive practices, Wall street Crash, WSJ, youth