June 8, 2010 Why do we have to turn summer camp into a marketing opportunity for pink and blue? What's the matter with plain ol' grass green and outdoor fun? Admittedly, I never made it to a 'traditional camp' until I was a parent. We moved duty stations during summers, and if we didn’t, we were ‘free range kids,’ amped with self reliance, creative spunk, and behavior … [Read more...]
Kids Summer Camps & Niche Gender Marketing: Why?
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Actionist Network, adventure camp, Amy-Jussel, Castles, Childhood Summers, children, childrens intelligence, Confidence Community, day camps, DigiGirlz, Disney, Every Boy, Every girl, fairytales, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, gender literacy, gender parity, Gender Portrayal, Girl Media, Girls Leadership Insititute, Jess Weiner, Kids, media-literacy, Melissa Wardy, niche camps, overnight camps, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pink and blue, pink camping gear, Pink princess, pink tents, Pink Think, pirates, princesses, reach and teach, redefining girly, robotics, selling of pink, sociological images, STEM, stratification, summer camps, traditional camps, true child
Seven Sensational Blogs About Girls (All Things Girl Pt.2)
I’ve learned something about myself from running this All Things Girl series…As much as I love it, I miss being ‘in the moment’ sharing life in ‘real time’---I’m finding it really hard to stay ‘in theme’ when events are swirling around me with exciting new media to share! Whether it’s accompanying Anand and my … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Africa, All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, APA, arts, Batsiranai Project, Bella Sara, bottlecap art, children, Claire-Mysko, Daughters, Doug Engelbart, Eco-Childs-Play, Eileen Clegg, Empowering girls, GAC, Gender, Girl blogs, Girl Child, girl culture, Girl Media, Girl Mogul, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Horse Club, girls sports, Growing Up Girl, infomania, internet, Media X, misogyny, MIT Media Lab, MOW, New Moon, NextNow, On-Teens-Today, One World Childrens Fund, OWCF, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, Program for the Future, project girl, readergirlz, Respect Rx, screaming bloody murder, Sejal Hathi, seven sisters, smart girls, So Sioux Me, Tapestries-of-Hope, target women, Teen Ink, teen voices, tweens, vanessa van petten, Visual Insight, you're grounded, Young-People-Who-Rock, zest books, Zimbabwe