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Graduation, Prom, Pressure, Stress? Keeping Up With The Joneses

June 1, 2012 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

June 1, 2012 Personally, I don’t think 8th grade and ‘cocktail dress’ should be uttered in the same sentence, but alas, there are entire websites ratcheting up the ‘kids getting older younger’ (KGOY) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: 15 minutes of fame, 8th grade graduation, 8th grade proms, affluenza, age compression, bragging rights, Bucket List, Celebrity worship, commencement, creative asks to prom, cult of celebrity, culture of celebrification, Curse of the Good Girl, developmental milestones, faux intimacy, Generation Diva, grad night, graduation parties, graduation spending, Junior Prom, KGOY, Mamarazzi, media mindfulness, Media-Influence-Kids, milestone mythology, milestones, night to remember, parenting in a celebrity driven society, pomp and circumstance, Pop culture impact on kids, prom comes of age, Sexualization, socioemotional health, sparksummit, starstruck celebrification, virtual stage

USC Media Student Bryn Kressin & Packaging Boyhood Book Winners!

January 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2009 top book picks, AFS, AIFS, API, Aspire Abroad, book, Bryn Kressin, collective knowledge, college, collegiate, contest winners, Curse of the Good Girl, Diane Levin, education, Elizabeth J Meyer, gap year, Gender, Happy New Year, high school abroad, IIE Passport, Jean Kilbourne, language resources, lifelong learning, Liz Funk, Liz J Meyer, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mamarazzi, Mark Tappan, military brats, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, New Year Resolutions, NYU, Oh the Places You'll Go, Packaging-Boyhood, passport, Rachel Simmons, Rosalind Wiseman, Semester at Sea, Sharon Lamb, So Sexy So Soon, Students, study abroad, SuperGirl, SuperGirls Speak Out, Surfrider Foundation, Suzette Valle, teens, travel, Travel abroad, walkabout, youth internships

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