April 8, 2009 Young women and their moms have been "under the influence" of Oprah longer than you can say “she’s gotta have it.” From cuddly bathrobes to kids' book club picks, when the grand dame of daytime speaks, people listen. Precisely the point that Director Darryl Roberts of America the Beautiful is making in his recent “open letter to Oprah” plea to curb the weight … [Read more...]
The Oprah Factor: Stop the Yo-Yo Dieting Messages
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 5-resolutions, America the Beautiful movie, anorexia, beauty industry, Beauty Mark, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Cancer, Darryl Roberts, Diane Israel, Diet ads, documentary, eating-disorders, EWG, excessive exercise, fad diets, girls, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, MamaVision, media influence, NEDA, Oprah, preteen-health, Project Green Prom, Race for Perfection, safe cosmetics, Search for a Cause, Teens Turning Green, thinspiration, youth
Shaping Youth Co-Sponsors “Consuming Kids” Movie Premiere!
April 2, 2009 Academic rockstars are descending upon U.C. Berkeley April 24th, as CCFC leaders speak in person on the commercialization of childhood and the impact on our culture!Shaping Youth is proud to be a media sponsor of the S.F. Bay Area Premiere of the movie Consuming Kids, and co-sponsor of this all-star panel in time for 'spring cleaning' 2009 to get rid of all this … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ad-creep, affluenza, Allen-Kanner, Amy-Jussel, Appetite for Profit, Bay Area Parent, branding, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, CCFC, Childhood Matters, commercialism, commercialization, Consuming kids, corporatized-child, digital marketing, divas, Ecopsychology, education, Generation-Digital, Going on 13, KGOY, Kids, marketing to kids, media influence, Media management, media-literacy, Michele Simon, movie premiere, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, nutrition, parenting, play, positive media, Sexualization, Susan Linn, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, what sells, youth